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How are smears obtained

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  1. Blood sample taken
  2. Cell induced to initiate mitosis
  3. blocked during metaphase
  4. stained with Giemsa dye
  5. observe under microscope
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Def: Genome Structure

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Includes chromosome number, size of chromosome, gene content, gene order
- Typically species specific

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How is genome structure related to speciation?

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Variations in chromosome number and/or structure are important forces driving speciation

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Why do humans have a different chromosome number as chimpanzees?

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Chromosome 12 and 13 fused to form chromosome 2 in humans

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Is the human genome structure optimized through evolution?

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  • Optimized for current population under current conditions
  • Not overall, will continue to evolve
  • Different selection pressures in todays society
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How are chromosomes organized within nucleus?

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CHROMOSOMAL TERRITORY
- Gene-rich chromosomes: near the center
- Gene-poor chromosomes: near the periphery
INTERCHROMOSOMAL DOMAINS
- REGIONS BETWEEN TERRITORIES

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Def: Karyotype

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Organized visual display of chromosomes
- FISH and Giemsa staining help identification

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FISH Karyotype

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Florescent in situ hybridization
- Chromosomes shown through florescent probes
- Descending order of size and then sex chromosomes

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P arm vs q arm

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Short arm vs long arm

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Standardized Human Chromosome Map

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  • Obtained using Giemsa staining and microscope
  • Regions that contain actively expressed genes and are less condensed are called euchromatin - tend to be GC rich and strain lightly
  • Regions that are tightly condensed and contain fewer expressed genes are called heterochromatin - AT rich and stain more heavily
  • Distances on chromosome measured from centromere
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What causes genome structure changes?

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Nondisjunction

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Def: Nondisjunction

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The failure of chromosomes and sister chromatids to properly separate during cell division

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At what stage does nondisjunction occur

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  • Germline cells: meiosis I / meiosis II
  • Somatic cell: mitosis
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What is the result and consequences of nondisjunction

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  • Abnormalities in chromosome number - aneuploidy and polyploidy
  • Causes dosage imbalance: generally more severe fitness effects in animals than plants
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Klinefelter Syndrome

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XXY
BABIES
- Weak muscles
- slow motor development (taking longer then average to crawl and walk
- Delay in speaking
- testicles not descended into the scrotum
ADULTS
- Low sperm count or no sperm
- low sex drive
- less muscular compared with other men
- increased belly fat
- small testicles and penis
- taller than average height
- decreased facial and body hair
- enlarged breast tissue

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Trisomy 13

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PATAU SYNDROME
Mental retardation and developmental delay, possible deafness, major organ abnormalities and early death

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Trisomy 18

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EDWARD SYNDROME
Mental retardation and developmental delay, skull and facial abnormalities, early death

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Trisomy 21

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DOWN SYNDROME
Mental retardation and developmental delay, characteristic facial abnormalities, short stature, variable life span

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XYY

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JACOB SYNDROME
Tall stature, possible reduction but not loss of fertility, no impact on mental capacity

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XXX

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TRIPLE X SYNDROME
Tall stature, possible reduction of fertility, menstrual irregularity, no impact on mental capacity

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XO

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TURNER SYNDROME
No secondary sexual characteristics, infertility, short stature, webbed neck, no impact on mental capacity

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Def: Polyploidy

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> 3 sets of chromosomes in the nucleus of an organism

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Autopolyploid

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DUPLICATION OF OWN DNA
1. Meiotic whole-genome nondisjunction: diploid gamete
2. Mitotic whole-genome nondisjunction
3. Mitotic and meiotic non-disjunction combined

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Alloployploidy

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Combining the chromosome sets of different species through hybridization

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What kind of benefits can we obtain from polyplodization?

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  • Bigger fruits and flowers
  • Fertility is decreases - particularly in 3n, 5n etc.
  • Hybrid vigor in allopolyploids
  • Polyploidization as a mechanism for rapid speciation
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How do chromosome structures change?

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  1. Chromosome Breakage
  2. unequal crossover during meiosis
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Chromosome breakage

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Changes chromosome structures leading to
- Missed ligation - loss of chromosome segments (deletion)
- Duplication ligation - gain of chromosomes (duplication)

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Terminal deletion

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Chromosome break that detaches part of one arm
- contains telomere and some genetic material

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Accentric fragment

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Broken off fragment without centromere that can be lost during cell division

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Interstitial deletion

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the loss of an internal segment of a chromosome that results from two chromosome breaks followed by a joining of the ends on either side of the segment

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Consequence of unequal crossover during meiosis

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  • Partial deletion heterozygote
  • Partial duplication heterozygote
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How does unequal crossover during meiosis occur

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  • Homologs misalign and a copy of gene loops out on each chromosome
  • when recombination occurs both loops on one side and neither on the other
  • leads to deletion on one side and duplication on the other
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How do we detect duplication and deletion?

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  • FISH probes to certain genes
  • No fluorescence detected from probe B - deletion (microinterstitial deletion)
  • Two fluorescent spots indicate the target of probe B is duplicated (microduplication)
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Microdeletions and microduplications

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  • smaller
  • not easy to detect by chromosome banding analysis
  • Use FISH to detect absence or presence of a particular gene or chromosome sequence
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Chromosome inversion

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Wrong orientation of segment in the same chromosome

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Chromosome Translocation

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Segment in a different chromosome

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How are inversion and translocations generated?

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Caused by chromosome breakage and wrong reattachment
- if no critical gene or regulatory region is broken or in the inverted/translocated regions, there may be no phenotypic consequences
- In germline cells they can affect chromosome segregation and reduce fertility during meiosis

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Types of chromosome inversion

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  • Paracentric inversion: centromere outside of inverted region
  • Pericentric inversion: centromere within inverted region
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Inversion heterozygotes

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have one normal and one inverted homolog

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How does paracentric inversion influence crossing over and fertility?

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  • Forms inversion loop at synapsis
  • Crossing over that occurs outside the inverted region takes place normally
  • Crossing over within the inverted region results in duplications and deletions in the recombinant chromosomes: forms a dicentric chromosome (non-viable) and an acentric fragment (lost in subsequent division)
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How does pericentric inversion influence crossing over and fertility?

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  • Crossing over that occurs within a pericentric inversion results in both duplicated and deleted regions in both of the recombinant products
  • Recombination event yields two normal gametes (from the non-crossover chromatids) and 2 abnormal (from crossover)
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What is chromosomal translocation?

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Broken ends of nonhomologous chromosomes are reattached, three types
- unbalanced
- reciprocal balanced
- Robertsonian translocation

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Unbalanced translocation

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Break off from one chromosome transferred to another causing deletion and addition

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Reciprocal balanced translocation

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translocation swap in two non-homologous chromosomes

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Robertsonian translocations

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AKA chromosomal fusion
- translocation of whole arm resulting in loss of other centromere due to lack of genes and fusion of the nonhomologous chromosomes

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Translocation heterozygotes

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may experience semisterility due to segregation abnormalities

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What are the consequences of balanced reciprocal translocation?

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  • Somatic cells: usually no observed effect
  • Germline cells: 1/2 normal, 1/2 inviable
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How is chromosomal DNA packaged inside the nucleus

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  • Chromosome: 50% DNA, 50% protein
    Proteins:
  • 50% histone proteins (H1, H2A, H2B, H3, H4)
  • two molecules of histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 (octamer) form nucleosome core particles
  • 146 bp wraps around each octamer to form nucleosome
  • remaining 50% of protiens are diverse combination of enzymes, transcription factors etc.
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Solenoid Structure

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10-nm fiber coils and forms the solenoid structure (30nm fiber), with 6-8 nucleosomes per turn and histone H1 stabilizing the solenoid

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Interphase chromosome orgnaization

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30-nm fibers attached to nonhistone scaffolding proteins at sites called MAR (matrix attachment regions), forming chromatid loops
- chromosome scaffolding gives chromosomes their shape
- the loops on the scaffolds are about 300nm which coil again to form chromosome arm

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Why are DNA packaged into scaffolds and chromatids?

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  • Efficient storage and separation of chromosome’s at anaphase
  • Chromatin loops play a role in the regulation of gene expression
  • Active transcription take place in segments of loops distant from MARs
  • Euchromatin (big loops, transcription is high) vs heterochromatin (small loops, low transcription activity
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What is the total length of DNA in a human

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7.59 x10^9 km

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