Week 2 Flashcards
3 phases in a PCR reaction
-denaturation, annealing, and elongation
Denaturation
heats it up to break apart bonds
Annealing
adds primers (cool down)
Elongation
activating DNA polymerases so it copies
amount of cycles used to amplify DNA
There are 20-45 cycles; on average: 30
function of PCR
Used for medical diagnostics (bacterial and viral confirmation, determination of diseases/genetic mutations i.e. cystic fibrosis through CFTR gene sequencing, forensics, and prenatal diagnoses).
thermocycler
laboratory apparatus most commonly used to amplify segments of DNA via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
bones that make up cranial fossa
6: frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, temporal, parietal, occipital
anterior cranial fossa:
three groves
- superior sagital sinus (dural venous sinus)
- anterior meningeal (branch of the ophthalmic artery)
- nasociliary (branch of the ophthalmic nerve
anterior cranial fossa: one fossa
-olfactory (olfactory bulb)
anterior cranial fossa: three foramen
- caecum (contains dural diverticulum
- anterior ethmoid (anterior ethmoid artery, nerve, and vein)
- posterior ethmoid (posterior ethmoid artery, nerve, and vein)
anterior cranial fossa: one cristae
-gallo (attachment to the falx cerebri)
middle cranial fossa: two grooves
- chiasmatic-optic canal (optic nerve and opthalmic artery)
- carotid (interior carotid artery and cavernous sinus)
middle cranial fossa: one fissure
III, IV, V1, VI, (opthalmic) cranial nerves, superior and inferior opthalmic veins
middle cranial fossa: four foramen
- rotundum (maxillary cranial nerve, emissary veins
- ovale (mandibular cranial nerve, acessory meningeal artery)
- spinosum (middle meningeal artery and vein)
- lacerum (great petrosal nerve)
middle cranial fossa: three sellae
- tuberculum (anterior wall)
- turcica (hypophyseal fossa)
- dorsum (posterior wall)
middle cranial fossa: three processes
- anterior clinoid
- middle clinoid
- posterior clinoid
posterior cranial fossa: 1 meatus
-internal auditory(VII, VIII, cranial nerves
posterior cranial fossa: 3 foramen
- Magnum (spinal cord to brain stem)
- Jugular (IX cranial nerve and inferior petrosal sinus; jugular bulb, X/XI cranial nerves)
- Condyloid (emissary veins and meningeal br of occipital artery)
posterior cranial fossa: 1 groove
-for superior petrosal sinus
posterior cranial fossa: 1 canal
-hypoglossal (XII cranial nerve)
posterior cranial fossa: 1 aqueduct
-vestibular (endolymphatic sinus and duct)
posterior cranial fossa: 1 clivus
medulla and pons
Olfactory
Smell from nasal mucosa of roof of each nasal cavity and superior sides of nasal septum and superior concha
-special sensory