WH term 2 Final Flashcards

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Griffith

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Mouse experiment - transformation

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Bacterial transformation experiments

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Griffith - worked with phnemonia. He used live bacteria in a mouse and it died, then gave another non pathogenic phnemonia and it lived. He then heat killed the pathogenic bacteria, and the mouse lived. When he mixed heat killed bacteria with non pathogenic live bacteria, the bacteria transformed and the mouse died

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Hershey and chase

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Bacteriophages-
They injected virus with radioactive sulfur protein coat and it was NOT infected
Injected a different virus with radioactive DNA so it could be followed- it DID infect
proved that DNA carried hereditary information

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Meselson and Stahl

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The Meselson–Stahl experiment was an experiment by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 which supported the hypothesis that DNA replication was semiconservative.

E. coli were grown for in a medium with 15N. DNA was centrifuged on a salt density gradient, the DNA separated out at the point at which its density equaled the salt solution. The DNA of the cells grown in 15N medium had a higher density than cells grown in normal 14N medium.
After that, E. coli cells with only 15N in their DNA were transferred to a 14N medium and were allowed to divide.

DNA was compared to pure 14N DNA and 15N DNA. After one replication, the DNA was found to have intermediate density. Since conservative replication would result in equal amounts of DNA of the higher and lower densities (but no DNA of an intermediate density), conservative replication was excluded. this result was consistent with semiconservative and dispersive replication. Semiconservative replication would result in double-stranded DNA with one strand of 15N DNA, and one of 14N DNA, while dispersive replication would result in double-stranded DNA with both strands having mixtures of 15N and 14N DNA, either of which would have appeared as DNA of an intermediate density.

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Avery, McCarty, MacLeod experiment

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experimental demonstration that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation.
purify and characterize the “transforming principle” responsible for the transformation phenomenon first described in Griffith’s experiment with killed pneumoniae.
Avery and his colleagues suggest that DNA was the the hereditary material of bacteria, and could be analogous to genes and/or viruses in higher organisms.

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DNA structure

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Double helix (Watson & crick)
Anti-parallel (the ends go in opposite directions of each other)
A-T
C-G
DEOXYRIBOSE nucleic acid
5'->3' : replication begins at 5'
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Watson and crick

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Discovered the DNA Double helix structure with the help of scientists like Franklin, chargaff etc

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Rosalind Franklin

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X-Ray crystallographer who took the famous photo that helped Watson and crick to discover the structure of DNA

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Primase

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Creates RNA primer at the 5’ end- allows other proteins and things to connect to DNA

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Helicase

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Unwinds DNA at the replication fork

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DNA Polymerase

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enzymes in DNA replication that assemble nucleotides. These enzymes are essential to DNA replication and usually work in pairs to create two identical DNA strands from a single original DNA molecule.
Work in opposite directions

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DNA REPLICATION

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  • helicase binds and unzips DNA at the replication fork
  • leading strand(top strand) lagging strand (bottom strand)
  • RNA Primase creates a primer that allows DNA polymerase to attach
  • DNA polymerase adds matching nucleotides along the leading strand - CAN ONLY COPY IN 5’-3’
  • RNA Primase lays down short primers for DNA polymerase to work down the segment backwards on the lagging strand. Fragments called Okazaki fragments
  • ligase joins okazaki fragments
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Ligase

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Joins together all of the Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand

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Telomeres

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Prevent DNA from degrading - they are strands of continuous repeating base pairs that do NOT have genes. When DNA is shortened after each replication, telomeres are the parts that come off so genes don’t degrade

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Poly ribosome

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Multiple ribosomes that attach to DNA molecules and make proteins

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Reverse transcriptase

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Builds DNA out of the RNA template

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Transcription factors

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Turn on and off genes - LAC opening and TRP operon

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Gene structure

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Non-coding RNA genes: Involved in the control of gene expression & protein synthesis. no overall conserved structure.
Protein-coding genes: expressed through transcription and translation. diversity in size and organisation and have no typical structure.

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Introns

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IN the way- aka, DNA sequences that get cut out

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Exons

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Expressed /-expressed portion of the genes

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Spliceosomes

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Made up of SNURPS.

They cut out introns and splice together exons

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RNA processing

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Use of spliceosomes to cut out introns and splice together exons - NOT done in prokaryotes

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Transcription

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The process of making RNA out of DNA - helicase unzips DNA, RNA nucleotides are paired with complimentary bases, the mRNA is processed and then leaves the nucleus to ribosomes

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Translation

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Takes place In the ribosomes. TRNA brings anti codons to MRNA along with amino acids, creating an amino acid chain moving along the mRNA template. These polypeptide chains make proteins

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Upstream

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Towards the 3’ end

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Mutations

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Frame shift
Addition
Deletion 
Mutation 
Translocation
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Protein synthesis in prokaryotes vs eukaryotes

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In prokaryotes there is no splicing - if you’re inserting some new DNA into prokaryotes, you must use reverse transcriptase or take DNA that has already been spliced.

In eukaryotes it occurs in nucleus where as prokaryotes don’t have nuclei

In eukaryotes, mRNA molecules are modified by the addition of a 5’ cap methyl group and a 3’ poly a tail.this doesn’t happen in prokaryotes

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operons

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Lac operon- turned OFF unless lactose is present. Lactose allows the promoter to bind and allow for synthesis

TRP operon works opposite

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Transcription factor

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a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, controlling the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA.

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Transformation efficiency

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the efficiency by which cells can take up extracellular DNA and express genes encoded by it. calculated by dividing the number of successful transformants by the amount of DNA used during a transformation procedure.