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2) Nucleic Acids Flashcards

1
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What are the 3 parts of a DNA and an RNA molecule?

A
  • Phosphate group
  • Pentose Sugar
  • Base
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2
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What is the pentose sugar in DNA?

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Deoxyribose

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3
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What are always the same in each DNA and RNA molecule?

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The phosphate group and pentose sugar

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4
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How many carbon atoms are in a deoxyribose?

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5

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5
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What are the 4 bases in DNA?

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  • adenine
  • thymine
  • cytosine
  • guanine
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6
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What are the 2 purines?

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Guanine and Adenine

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7
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What are the 2 pyramidines?

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Cytosine and Thymine

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8
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What bonds pair the bases?

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Hydrogen

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9
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How many hydrogen bonds between adenine and thymine?

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2

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10
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How many hydrogen bonds between cytosine and guanine?

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3

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11
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What is stored by DNA?

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Genetic information

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12
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What does the genetic information do?

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Provides instructions for growth and development

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13
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Describe the form of DNA (3 points)

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  • double stranded molecule
  • 2 polynucleotides form a double helix
  • polynucleotide chains are antiparallel
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14
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What does DNA stand for?

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Deoxyribonucleic acid

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15
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What is the bond between the phosphate and the pentose sugar called?

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Phosphodiester bond

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16
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Explain the transforming principle in terms of pneumonia and mice (3 points)

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S-strain = harmful form of bacteria
R-strain = safe form of bacteria

1) Griffith injected mice with the bacteria and had different results:
- s-strain = mice died
- r-strain = mice lived
- s-strain killed by heat = mice lived

2) He then mixed the r-strain (safe) with the heat killed s-strain (supposedly safe)
- they died
- the information from the dead s-strain had been passed to the live r-strain

3) This is because the DNA survived the heating but the bacteria didn’t, so it was able to replicate with the necessary information to become harmful again

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17
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What does RNA stand for?

A

Ribonucleic acid

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18
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What is the role of RNA?

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Transfer genetic information from the DNA to the ribosomes

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19
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What are the ribosomes?

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The body’s ‘protein factories’

20
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What do ribosomes do?

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Read RNA to make polypeptides during translation

21
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What are 2 differences between DNA and RNA?

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  • RNA is made from a single polynucleotide chain

- RNA is much shorter than DNA

22
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What is the pentose sugar in RNA?

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Ribose

23
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What are the 4 bases in RNA?

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  • adenine
  • urasil
  • thymine
  • guanine
24
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What base is replaced by urasil in RNA?

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Thymine

25
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What is the process of semi-conservative replication?

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1) DNA helicase breks hydrogen bondss and unwinds DNA strands

2) Free floating nucleotides pair with complementary bases
- A+T
- C+G

3) Condensation reactions join the nucleotides of the new strands together to form hydrogen bonds between the base pairs
- this reaction is catalysed by DNA polymerase

4) Each new molecule contains one new and one old strand

26
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What is the proof of semi conservative replication?

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1) Two bacteria samples grown then spun in centrifuge
- light nitrogen (DNA) settled at top
- heavy nitrogen (DNA) settled at bottom

2) Sample of heavy bacteria grown with the light nitrogen was left to replicate once and then spun on centrifuge
- if it was conservative, they would settle at separate ends

3) DNA settled in the middle, showing the DNA molecule contained a mixture of both nitrogens
- bacterial DNA replicated semi-conservatively in the light nitrogen

27
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What are the 5 parts of an ATP molecule?

A
  • adenine base
  • ribose sugar
  • 3 phosphate groups
28
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What is adenine+ribose called?

A

Adenosine

29
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When can ADP+inorganic phosphate be formed?

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When ATP is hydrolysed

30
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What catalysis the hydrolysis of ATP?

A

The enzyme ATP hydrolase

31
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Where is ATP made?

A

In the mitochondria

32
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Why does ATP have to be constantly made?

A
  • cannot be stored in the cell

- immediate source of energy

33
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Why is ATP better than glucose? (5 points)

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  • small amounts are ideal for body reactions
  • single reaction produces energy instantly
  • small amounts of energy are released
  • can be quickly regenerated from ADP (condensation)
  • the doses of energy are more manageable
34
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What are the 2 types of phosphorylation?

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  • substrate level

- oxidative

35
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What is phosphorylation?

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Adding an inorganic phosphate to ADP during respiration to form ATP

36
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What is substrate level phosphorylation?

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The direct transfer of a phosphate group from a donor molecule to ADP

37
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What is oxidative phosphorylation?

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Production of sufficient energy to form ATP from ADP and phosphate

38
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How many reactions occur in oxidative phosphorylation?

A

A series of oxidation reactions

39
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How many reactions occur in substrate level phosphorylation?

A

1 single reaction

40
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In what part of respiration does oxidative phosphorylation occur?

A

Electron Transport Chain

41
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In what part of respiration does substrate level phosphorylation occur?

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Glycolysis and Krebs cycle

42
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What are the 5 main uses of ATP?

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  • active transport
  • secretion
  • metabolic processes
  • movement
  • molecule activation
43
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How is ATP used in movement?

A

Muscle ontraction

44
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How is ATP used in metabolic processes?

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Provides energy to make larger maromolecules

45
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How is ATP used in secretion?

A

To make lysozymes

46
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How is ATP used in molecule activation?

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  • inorganic phosphates can phosphorylate other molecules

- lowers the activation energy and makes them more reactive

47
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What catalyses the condensation of ADP and an inorganic phosphate to form ATP?

A

Enzyme ATP synthase

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