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What did Archibald Garrod find?

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that rare inherited diseases (single gene traits) were due to defects in specific steps of metabolic pathways; correlated one gene with the production of one enzyme

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What is Alkaptonuria (black urine disease) due to? Who discovered this?

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due to build-up of a chemical intermediate of the metabolism of tyrosine

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one gene encodes for ________ ; why?

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one-polypeptide; Each gene encodes a piece of a protien

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What did Beadle and Tatum do?

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used Neurospora (bread mold) to test hypothesis that specific gene expression correlates with specific enzyme activity

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What is neurospora?

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a simple organism that is haploid for most of its life cycle; all alleles are expressed as phenotypes

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How did Beadle and Tatum run their experience?

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Treated wild-type Neurospora with mutagens and isolated mutant strains that needed specific nutrient supplements to grow

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Conclusions of Beadle to Tatum’s Discoveries

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for each mutant strain, the addition of just one compound supported growth; each mutation caused a defect in only one enzyme in a metabolic pathway

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Tatum and Beadle; what did having three different arg mutant strains mean?

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could have mutations in the same gene – or in different genes that governed steps of a biosynthetic pathway

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What was the nutrient path discovered by Tatum and Beadle

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Precursor –> Ornithine –> citrulline –> arginine

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Gene expression to form a specific polypeptide occurs in two steps:

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transcription and translation

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transcription

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copies information from a DNA sequence (a gene) to a complementary RNA sequence

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translation

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converts RNA sequence to amino acid sequence of a polypeptide

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What is the central dogma of molecular biology?

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transcription and translation

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What separates transcription and translation in eukaryotes?

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the nuclear envelope

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Where is the site of transctiption in eukaryotes? translation? What is the intermediate messenger

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DNA is in the nucleus which is the site of transcription
Ribosomes in the cytoplasm (ER) are the site of translation
mRNA is the intermediate messenger

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Where does translation occur in prokaryotes?

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on growing mRNA

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How does RNA differ from DNA?

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  • contains uracil instead of thymine
    -the sugar is ribose
    -usually differs by a single polynucleotide strand
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What are the three kinds of RNA in protein synthesis? How are they made?

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Messenger RNA, Transfer RNA, RIbosomal RNA
All types are made by transcription

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Messenger RNA

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mRNA; carries a copy of a DNA sequence to the site of protein synthesis at the ribosome; has information for the order of amino acids in a protein

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Transfer RNA

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tRNA; carries amino acids for polypeptide assembly; decodes the information in mRNA; does not hold genetic information for making the protein

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Ribosomal RNA

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rRNA; catalyzes peptide bonds and provides structure
does not hold genetic information for making the protein

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What does the shape of tRNA result from? What is always at the amino acid attachment side?

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The 3D structure results from base pairing (hydrogen bonding) within the molecule; always has CCA on the 3’ attachment side

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Where is the location of each RNA types activity?

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All are in the cytoplasm; rRNA is the ribosomes in the cytoplasm

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What does RNA polymerases do?

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catalyze the synthesis of RNA from a DNA template

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RNA polymerases and DNA polymerases are both processive. What does that mean?
a single enzyme-template binding results in polymerization of hundreds of RNA bases
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Where can RNA polymerases add new nucleotides?
It can only add new nucleotides to the 3' end of a growing strand
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What are the differences between DNA polymerases and RNA polymerases
-RNA polymerases can initiate synthesis without an existing 3'-OH group, so do not need primers -RNA polymerases lack a proofreading function
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What are the components of transcription
-DNA template for base pairings -- one of the two strands -nuceloside triphosphates (Atp, Gtp, Ctp, Utp) as substrates -An RNA polymerase enzyme -transcription factors (eukaryotes only)
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What are the three phases of transcription
Initiation, elongation, termination
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Initiation
requires a promoter -- a special sequence of DNA -- that RNA polymerase binds to. The promoter directs the RNA polymerase to where it should start and in which direction to transcribe
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Part of each promoter is the ____________ of transcription
initiation site
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Elongation
RNA polymerase unwinds DNA about 10 base pairs at a time; reads template in 3' to 5' direction
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Where are nucleotides added in elongation? What is this relative to the DNA strand?
Antiparallel to the template DNA strand Added to the 3' end
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Termination
specified by a base sequence in DNA that destabilizes the transcription complex
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What are a few examples of modes of termination
-the transcript falls away from the RNA polymerase and DNA template -helper protein pulls away the transcript
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The _____ of a gene orients the start site and direction of transcription of DNA into RNA
promoter region
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The DNA template strand is transcribed _____ by RNA polymerase to produce a _______ transcript (or _____)
3' to 5' 5' to 3' pre-mRNA
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What is an intron? Exons?
Introns are transcribed regions that are removed from the pre-mRNA prior to nuclear export; Exons remain
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T/F All transcripts of a gene have the same initiation site, or the same exon/intron structure
F; not all transcripts have the same
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Eukaryotic genes may have noncoding sequenes, which are called ______
introns
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Where do introns appear? Where are they removed?
appear in the primary mRNA transcript and are removed in the nucleus
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Where are the coding sequences contained after introns are removed
contained in the exons that remain
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What does the spliceosome do?
cuts pre-mRNA, releases introns, and splices exons together to produce mature mRNA
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RNA splicing _______ and _____
removes introns and splices exons together
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Where is newly transcribed (post-splicing) pre-mRNA bound? By what?
At the ends By snRNPs (small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles)
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What are consensus sequenes
short sequences at exon/intron junctions; where snRNPs bind and near the 3' end of the intron
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T/F in the eukaryotic nucleus, in the addition to intron removal, one end of pre-mRNA is modified
F; both ends are modified. A G cap at the 5' end and a Poly A tail at the 3' end
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What is a G cap
modified guanosine triphosphate added to the 5' end to facilitate mRNA binding to the ribosome and to protect mRNA from being degraded by ribonucleases
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What is a poly A tail
Added to the 3' end -An AAUAAA sequence after the last codon which is a signal for an enzyme to cut the pre-mRNA; then another enzyme adds 100 to 300 adenines (the tail) - may assist in export from nucleus; important for the stability of mRNA
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What does UTR stand for?
Untranslated Region
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T/F the genetic code is ambiguous and not redundant
F; the genetic code is redundant (more than one codon creates an amino acid) but not ambiguous (each coding only signals for one amino acid)
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Somatic mutations
occur in somatic cells -- passed on by mitosis but not to sexually produced offspring
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Germ line mutations
occur in germ line cells, the cells that give rise to gametes; a gamete passes a mutation on at fertilization
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silent mutations
do not change the polypeptide sequence or protein function
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loss of function mutation
affect protein function and may lead to structural proteins or enzymes that no longer work - almost always recessive
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Gain of function mutations
lead to a protien with altered function
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conditional mutations
cause phenotypes under restrictive conditions, but are not detectable under permissive conditions
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point mutations
results from the gain, loss, or substitution of a single basepair of DNA; can be silent or alter the sequence of the polypeptide
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A missense point mutation at a nonsynonymous site ___________
changes a single amino acid
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A nonsense point mutation shortens polypeptide by causing ___________
premature termination of translation
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loss of stop mutation
causes read-through translation to a new stop codon
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frame-shift
changes reading frame by adding or deleting bases
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tRNA
the adapter molecules associates information in mRNA codons with specific amino acids
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tRNA functions
binds to an amino acid, and is then "charged", associates with mRNA molecules, interacts with ribosomes
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Anticodon
At the midpoint of the tRNA sequence; The site of base pairing between tRNA and mRNA
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What does the 3D conformation of tRNA result from?
base pairing -- hydrogen bonding -- within the molecules
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When end of the tRNA is the amino acid attachment site? How do they attach?
3' end; binds covalently
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What energy source is needed to charge a tRNA molecule?
ATP
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What enzymes charge tRNA? What is its specificity? What is it's three-part active site bind to?
aminoacyl-tRNA; highly specific for one amino acid and it's corresponding tRNA; binds to a specific amino acid, a specific tRNA, and ATP
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What is wobble?
specificity for the. base at the 3' end of the codon is not always observed; allows cells to produce fewer tRNA species, but does NOT create any ambiguity in the genetic code
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What does the ribosomes do?
its the workbench; holds mRNA and charged tRNA in the correct positions to allow assembly of polypeptide chain
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What are the subunits of a ribosome?
Large: 3 molecules of rRNA Small: 1 molecule of rRNA
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What are the three tRNA binding sites in the large subunit?
A (amino acid) site, P (polypeptide) site, E (exit) site
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What are the three stags of translation?
Initiation, Elongation, Termination
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What is RNA initiation
formation of the initiation complex -- a charged tRNA and small ribosomal subunit, both bound to mRNA
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What is RNA Elongation
charged tRNA enters A site, large subunit acts as peptidyl transferase
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What is RNA Termination
a stop codon enters the A site of the ribosome
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How do prokaryotes initiate translation?
rRNA binds to mRNA recognition site "upstream" of the start codon
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How do eukaryotes initiate translation?
small subunit of a ribosome binds to the 5' cap on the mRNA and moves until it reaches the start codon
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What is the mRNA start codon
AUG
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What is the N-terminus
the first amino acid after the mRNA start codon (methionine) which may be removed after translation
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Where does the charged tRNA enter the large subunit? Where do the following ones enter? How do they interact?
The first enters the P site; the second enters the A site. The bond breaks between the tRNA in the P site and it's amino acid; that amino acid forms a peptide bond with the amino acid carried by the tRNA in the A site
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What protiens assist RNA elongation?
elongation factors
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What happens to tRNA after it breaks its bond with it's amino acid
it moves to the E-site where it dissociates from the ribosome; it can become charged again
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When does RNA translation end?
when a stop codon enters the A site; this codon binds a protein release factor that allows hydrolysis of the bond between the polypeptide chain and tRNA on the P site
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What is the last amino acid added to a polypeptide chain in RNA translation?
C terminus
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Where are ribsomes located in a eukaryotic cell? Where is polypeptide chains released after termination?
Located in the membrane of the RER; the chain is released into the lumen of the RER
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What are the three types of post-translational modifications?
Phosphorylation, Glycosylation, and Proteolysis
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What is phosphorylation?
Adding phosphate groups to the polypeptide chain in post-translational processing to alter the shape of the protien
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What is glycosylation?
Adding sugars to the polypeptide chain in post-translational processing that are important for targeting and recognition
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What is proteolysis
Cleaving the polypeptide chain in post-translational processing to allow the fragments to fold into different shapes
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What are the differences betw4een RNA transcription/ translation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
In prokaryotes, both processes occur at the same time in the cytoplasm; In eukaryotes transcription occurs first in the nucleus then translation occurs in the cytosol
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What are the differences between gene structure for Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
In prokaryotes, DNA sequence is not usually interrupted by introns; in Eukaryotes, transcribed regions (exons) are often interrupted by non-coding introns
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What are the difference between the modification of mRNA after transcription but before translation for Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes
In prokaryotes, there is usually no modification; In eukaryotes, introns are spliced out of pre-mRNA, and the 5'cap and 3' poly-A tail are added to mRNA.
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What are the differences between translation initiation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
In prokaryotes, the small subunit of the ribosomes associates with mRNA at the Shine-Dalgarno sequence; in Eukaryotes, the small subunit of ribosome binds at the 5' end of mRNa and moves to start codon

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