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Nucleotides and Nucleic acids Flashcards

1
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What is a nucleotide made of?

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-A pentose sugar- A nitrogenous base- A phosphate group

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What elements are nucleotides made up of?

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-Carbon-Oxygen-Hydrogen-Nitrogen-Phosphate

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Why are nucleotides important?

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-They’re the monomers that make up DNA and RNA

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What is DNA used for?

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-To store genetic infomation, the instructions used to grow and develop.

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What is RNA used for?

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-To make proteins from instructions in DNA

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What are ATP and ADP?

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-Special types of nucleotides that are used to store and transport energy in cells

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7
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What is ribose and what is it used in?

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-A sugar that is used in RNA instead of deoxyribose

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What are the four phosphate groups in DNA?

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-Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine

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9
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How do the phosphate groups in DNA pair?

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  • Adenine and Thymine

- Cytosine and Guanine

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What type of bases are adenine and guanine?

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Purine

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What type of bases are cytosine and thymine?

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Pyrimidine

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12
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What pentose sugar is used in DNA?

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Deoxyribose

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13
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What does a purine base contain?

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  • Two carbon-nitrogen rings joined together
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What does a pyrimidine base contain?

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  • One carbon-nitrogen ring, making it a smaller base than purine
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15
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What are the bases in RNA?

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-Adenine, Uracil, Cytosine and Guanine

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16
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What is a molecule of DNA made up of?

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  • Two polynucleotide chains
17
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What is a molecule of RNA made up of?

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  • A single polynucleotide chain
18
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How do you phosphorylate a nucleotide?

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Add one or more phosphate groups to it

19
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What type of nucleotides are ATP and ADP?

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Phosphorylated

20
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What does ADP contain?

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-The base adenine, the sugar ribose, and two phosphate groups

21
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What does ATP contain?

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-The base adenine, the sugar ribose and three phosphate groups

22
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How is ATP synthesised?

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  • From ADP and an inorganic phosphate group, using energy from an energy-releasing reaction e.g. the breakdown of glucose in respiration
  • ATP is phosphorylated and a phosphate bond is formed
23
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What do nucleotides join together to form?

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Polynucleotides

24
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How are polynucleotides formed?

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  • Nucleotides join up between the phosphate group of one nucleotide and the sugar of another
  • A phosphodiester bond is formed
25
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What does a phosphodiester bond consist of?

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-The phosphate group and two ester bonds

26
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What is the chain of sugars and phosphates known as?

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The sugar phosphate backbone

27
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What do 2 polynucleotide strands join together to form?

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A double helix

28
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What bonds joint the two polynucleotide strands together?

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Hydrogen bonds between the bases

29
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Complementary base pairing

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Each base only joining to it’s specific partner

30
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How many hydrogen bonds form between A and T

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2

31
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How many hydrogen bonds form between C and G

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3

32
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How can DNA be purified?

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Using a precipitate reaction

33
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When does DNA copy itself?

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Before cell division

34
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Semi conservative replication

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The copying of DNA so that half of the strands in each new DNA is made of original peices of DNA, new molecule contains half new DNA half old

35
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Why is DNA replication so accurate?

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To ensure that genetic infomation is conserved each time the DNA in the cell is replicated

36
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Stage one of semi conservative replication

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  • DNA helicase breaks the hydrogen bonds between the two polynucleotide DNA strands
  • The helix unzips to form two single strands
37
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Stage two of semi conservative replication

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  • Each original single strand acts as a template for a new strand
  • Free-floating DNA nucleotides joint the exposed bases on each original strand by complementary base pairing
38
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Stage three of semi conservative replication

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  • The nucleotides of the new strands are joined together by DNA polymerase
  • This forms the sugar phosphate backbone
  • Hydrogen bonds form between the bases on the original and new strand
  • Strands twist to form a double helix

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