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7: Mutation, Repair, & Transposable Elements Flashcards

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Adaptive mutation hypothesis

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Environment causes heritable change

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What is the spontaneous random mutation hypothesis?

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Mutation occurs by chance and not in response to the environment

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What did luria and delbruck do?

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They performed a fluctuation test, disproving the hypothesis of adaptive mutation

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Mutation rate =

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Change/nucleotide/generation

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Eukaryotic mutation rate

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10^-4 and 10^-6

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Bacteria/phage mutation rate

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10^-6 and 10^-8

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Transition mutations

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Purine –> purine

Pyrimidine –> pyrimidine

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Transversion mutations

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Pyrimidine –> purine

Purine –> pyrimidine

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Is transition or transversion more common?

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Transition

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What is a missense mutation?

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A change from one amino acid to another

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What is a nonsense mutation?

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A change from an amino acid to a stop codon

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What is a neutral mutation?

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A change from an amino acid to another amino acid with similar chemical properties

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What is a silent mutation?

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A change in the codon such that the same amino acid is coded for

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2 types of reversion mutations

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  1. True reversion

2. Partial reversion

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True reversion

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Mutant to wild type ( identical amino acid seq)

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Partial reversion

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Changes in other amino acid that fully or partially restores protein function

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suppressor mutations

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Occur at sites different from the mutations they suppress

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Intragenic suppressor

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A suppressor that occurs within the same gene as the original mutation, but at different sites

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Intergenic suppressor

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At mRNA translation level

Each suppressor works on only one type of nonsense, missense, or frameshift mutation

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Nonsense suppressors

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In redundant tRNA genes

Occurs by competition between release factor and suppressor tRNAs

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At which phase of the cell cycle do mutations occur?

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S phase

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7 factors that effect mutation rate

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  1. Spontaneous isomerization due to reversible proton shift
  2. Base analogs
  3. Genetic constitution of organism
  4. Repetitive nucleotides, cg islands, pyrimidine dinucleotides
  5. DNA polymerase proof-reading functions
  6. DNA repair
  7. Selection
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Base substitution

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Enol OH can form H bond w/ incorrect partner

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Which nucleotide does G wobble base pair with?

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T

24
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Deamination of cytosine results in…

A

Uracil

25
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What is a mutation hotspot?

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5-methyl-CG regions

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What is DNA methylation?

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Addition of a methyl group to C and A

27
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What uv range is absorbed by purines and pyrimidines?

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254-260 nm

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What is the cumulative effect?

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A particular dose of radiation results in the same number of mutations whether it is received over a short or long period of time

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What do x-rays do to DNA?

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They break covalent bonds

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What are base analogs?

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5-methyluracil and 5-bromouracil. Analogs of thymine that change what it pairs to

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What are 3 base-modifying agents?

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Nitrous acids, hydroxylamine, and methylamine sulfonate

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What is an intercalating agent?

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Mutagen allowing for insertion

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What is the ames test?

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A test to screen for potential carcinogens using Salmonella typhimurium

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What is the mutD gene?

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A subunit of DNA polymerase III with proofreading functions

35
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What is Xeroderma pigmentosum?

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A disorder that occurs in homozygotes for a mutation in 1 of 9 repair genes

36
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Where are retrovirus type transposons found?

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Only in eukaryotes

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What are insertion sequences?

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The simplest transosable elements made up of a transposase gene and inverted repeats. They are randomly integrated.

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What is a byproduct of IS insertion?

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Small direct repeats

39
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What are composite transposons?

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Transposons that carry antibiotic resistance genes flanked by IS elements. Tranposition results from IS. They cause target site duplication.

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What are noncomposite transposons?

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Transposons that carry drug resistance genes but do not terminate with is elements but with repeated sequences. They cause target site duplication.

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What are p-elements?

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Transposons that make up 15% of the drosophila genome

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What are LINEs?

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Autonomous retrotransposons with functional transposition genes. 20% of the genome

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What are SINEs?

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Non-autonomous retrotransposons

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