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what are carbohydrates also known as?

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sugars and are molecules made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
CHO

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what does catabolized mean? what does it create

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broken down to create energy molecules such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD’)

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what is ATP and NAD’?

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ATP provides a source of energy
NAD’ provides a source of electrons to drive cellular processes

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what is the monomer of carbohydrates?
-example?
polymers of carbohydrates? Example?

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-monosaccharide
-glucose
-polysaccharide
-starch which is used to store excess sugar

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what type of carbohydrate is cellulose and what is it

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-polysaccharide and is a support fiber responsible in part for the strength of plants

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what are lipids composed ?
-what do they contain?

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-composed of hydrogen and carbon, small percentage of oxygen
-the contain a head and tail

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the head of the lipid is?
-the tail of the lipid is?

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-usually phosphate or glycerol and is hydrophilic and polar. points outwards
-the tail is a hydrocarbon chain and is hydrophobic and nonpolar. points inwards

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what does saturation describe?

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the number of double bonds in the tail of the lipid. more double means more unsaturated (fats)

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functions of proteins

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-act as catalysts, transports molecules across membranes, facilitate DNA replication and regulate the cell cycle including mitosis and meiosis

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proteins are composed of?
-what the three parts to it?

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-amino acids
-amino group
-carboxyl group
-R group

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how many amino acids are used to produce protein?

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-22

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nuclei acids are?

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store all info necessary to produce proteins. found in DNA and RNA
-made up of nucleotides

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what are nucleotides composed of?

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5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base (A,T,G,C)

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order of protein units

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nucleotides to nuclei acids to proteins to chromosomes

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what are the nucleotides of DNA

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-adenine to thymine
-cytosine to guanine

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purines are?
pyrimidines are?

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adenine and guanine
-thymine and cytosine

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on the double helix whats on the outside and inside?

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sugar on the outside and nitrogenous base on the inside

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what’s replaced for RNA?

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-thymine by uracil so AU
-is also a single strand and contains ribose

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DNA vs RNA

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-DNA contains double helix and RNA is only one strand
-RNA contains ribosomes, DNA contains deoxyribose
-RNA in uracil and thymine in DNA

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what prime does DNA start with?

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5’ to 3’

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what is histones?

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proteins which organize DNA and this DNA is known as chromatin. To form nucleosomes, DNA is wrapped around histones

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during interphase, what happens to chromatin?
during mitosis?

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-chromatin is arranged loosely to have access to DNA
-DNA is tightly packaged into unit cells called chromosomes

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when DNA has replicated, what happens?

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the chromosome is composed of two chromatids joined together at the centromere

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what is a diploid

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somatic cell meaning it has two sets of homologous chromosomes one from each parent

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what is a haploid?
-cells with one set of chromosomes
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what does helicase do?
it is an enzyme that unwinds DNA into two separate strands
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what is the leading strand? what is the lagging strand?
-leading can only be read by DNA in the 3' to 5' direction -the lagging strand runs to 5' to 3' and has to be synthesized piece by piece in chunks called Okazaki fragments
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every time a full chromosome is replicated, what happens?
a very small part of the DNA is lost at the end, this piece is called a telomere which is usually noncoding. this is why DNA replication must come to an end eventually
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what is DNA polymerase responsible for?
for synthesizing Okazaki fragment. DNA polymerase III is the primary replication of the 5' to 3' strand
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what is DNA ligase responsible for?
fixes small breaks in the DNA strand is used to seal the finished DNA strands
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DNA telomerase is responsible for?
-lengthens the telomeres at the end of each strand of DNA, allowing it to be copied additional times
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how many possible codons are there?
64. there are three stop codons which instruct the ribosome to stop processing the mRNA
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explain transcription
it is the process of making messenger RNA (mRNA) from a DNA strand. the DNA first unwound then RNA polymerase makes a complementary transcript of the DNA sequence called mRNA
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explain translation
process which converts the mRNA transcript into a useable protein. occurs in the ribosome which lines up the mRNA so it can bind to tRNA (transfer RNA). each tRNA includes an amino acid and an anticodon and a bond is formed between the growing amino acid strand and the new amino acid brought by tRNA
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what is an anticodon?
included in tRNA, this matches to the complementary codon on the mRNA
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what is a release factor?
it is a protein (which is activated by a stop codon in the ribosomes) which binds to ribosomes and will split a part after this release factor binds and creates a newly formed amino acids chain
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what is a point mutation
a single base in the sequence of a gene changes permanenetly through substitution, deletion, or insertion
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base substitution?
a mutation in which one or more bases in sequence changes
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whats insertion?
occurs when one base or a few bases is added to the sequence
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what is deletion?
when one nucleotide or a few is lost from the sequence
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frameshift mutation
when DNA nucleotides are removed or added and result in how the gene is read by RNA polymerase and ribosomes
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chromosome invasion
two breaks occur in chromosomes and fragment that breaks away flips around and reattaches
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what is an operon? what is a promoter? what is an operator?
-proteins that are produced from a set of genes -is included in operons, and initiates transcription -an enzyme can bind to this and regulate transcription and the protein coding sequence
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what are alleles?
multiple versions of the same gene and account for variation in a population
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what is homozygous? what is heterozygous?
-two genes that are identical (RR or rr) -two genes that are different, genes do not blend and act separately, one often being completely or partially suppressed (Rr)
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genotype vs phenotype
genotype is complete genetic code and phenotype is observable characteristics
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what is epistasis?
same genotypes expressed differently based on environmental factors or presence of other genes
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the law of segregation
-states that genes come in allele pairs, if the organism is diploid, and that each parent can pass only a single allele down to its child. each individual has a pair of alleles for each gene: one from mom and one from dad. also states that alleles must separate during ,meiosis so that only one is given to each gamete
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law of independence assortment
state that genes responsible for different traits are passed on independently, mom is tall with brown hair, may pass down tallness but not brown hair
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law of dominance
states that some alleles are dominant and some are recessive. dominant mask the behavior of the recessive
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when does gene linkage occur?
when genes that are situated close together on a chromosome and thus are more likely to be inherited together
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females vs males chromosomes
females have two X chromosomes and carries two alleles which means the dominant allele will express itself for X linked traits. males have both an X and Y chromosome and only one allele for every X gene, trait will be expressed whether it's dominant or recessive
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what's crossing over and when does it occur?
-the process of meiosis also introduces genetic variation during crossing over which occurs in prophase I when homologous chromosomes pair along their lengths and creates a new chromatid

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