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Hereditary information in DNA directs the development of your?

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biological, anatomical, physiological, and behavioral traits

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Hereditary information is reproduced in cells during?

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DNA replication

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When T.H. Morgan’s group showed that genes are located on chromosomes and the two components ____ became _____.

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DNA and protein, candidates for the genetic material

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The discovery of the ______ began with ____.

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genetic role of DNA, research by Fredrick Griffith

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Transformation is defined as?

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a change in genotype and phenotype due to assimilation of foreign DNA

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bacteriophages

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viruses widely used in molecular genetics research

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Viruses must ____ and ____ in order to reproduce.

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infect cells, takeover the cells metabolic machinery

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Chargaff’s rules

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-base compositions of DNA varies between species
-In any species, the percentages of A and T/ C and G bases are equal

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____ X-Ray Crystallographic images of DNA enabled Watson to?

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Franklin’s, deduce that DNA was helical

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Watson built a model on which the backbones were?

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antiparrallel

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antiparrallel

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subunits run in opposite directions

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Since the two strands of DNA are ____, each strand ___.

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complementary, stores info necessary to reconstruct the other.

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In DNA replication, the ____ and two ___ are built based on ____.

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parent molecule unwinds, new daughter strands, base-pairing rules

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Watson and Crick’s Semiconservative model of replication predicts?

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When a double helix replicates, each daughter molecule will have a new and old strand.

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The copying of DNA is remarkable in its?

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speed and accuracy

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More than a dozen ____ participate in DNA replication.

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enzymes and other proteins

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Origins of replication

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replication begins at these sights

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What happens at origins of replication?

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two DNA strands are separated

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When the 2 DNA strands are separated what opens up?

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replication bubble

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At each end of a replication bubble there is?

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replication fork

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replication fork

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y-shaped region where the parental strands of DNA are being unwound

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For the long DNA molecules in eukaryotes, multiple ____ eventually, speeding up the ____.

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replication bubbles fuse, copying of DNA

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helicase

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enzymes that untwist the double helix at replication forks

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single-strand binding proteins

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bind to and stabilize single-stranded DNA

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Topoisomerase
relieves the strain caused by tight twisting ahead of replication fork by breaking, swiveling, and rejoining DNA strands
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enzymes that synthesize DNA cannot ___, they can only add ____.
initiate synthesis of a polynucleotide, nucleotides to an already existing chain base paired with Template.
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Short RNA primer
initial nucleotide strand
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Primase
starts an RNA chain w/ single RNA nucleotide and adds RNA nucleotides one at a time using parental DNA as template
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DNA polymerase
catalyze elongation of new DNA at a replication fork
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DNA polymerase adds nucleotides to the?
3' end of a preexisting chain
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Most DNA polymerase require a ___ and ____.
primer, DNA template strand
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dATP
used to make DNA
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Difference between dATP and ATP?
dATP has deoxyribose, ATP has ribose
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Newly replicated DNA strands must be formed?
antiparallel
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Because DNA polymerases add nucleotides only to the free ___ the strand can elongate only in the ___.
3' end of a growing strand, 5' to 3' direction
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Along one template strand of DNA, the DNA polymerase synthesizes a ____ towards the ___.
leading strand continuously moving, replication fork
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To elongate the lagging strand, DNA polymerase must?
work in the direction away from the replication fork
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Okazaki fragments
lagging strand is synthesized as a series of segments
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DNA ligase
joins the Okazaki fragments together
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Errors in the completed DNA molecule amount to only?
one in 10 billion
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Mismatch repair
enzymes correct errors in base pairings
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One defect in DNA molecule allows cancer causing errors to?
accumulate in DNA faster than normal
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DNA can be damaged by exposure to harmful?
chemical or physical agents
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nuclease
cuts out and replaced damaged stretches of DNA
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nucleotide excision repair
removes bulky lesions from DNA damage
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Mutations are the source of____ upon which ____ operates.
genetic variation, natural selection
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Telomeres
special nucleotide sequences at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes
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Telomeres do not?
contain genes
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Telomeres do not prevent ____ but they do ___.
the shortening of DNA molecules, postpone it
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Telomerase
catalyzes the lengthening of telomeres in germ cells
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Telomerase is not active in most human ___ cells but can show inappropriate activity in some ____.
somatic, cancer cells
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Nucleoid
Where the supercoilded DNA is found in bacterium
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Chromatin
complex of DNA and protein found in nucleus of eukaryotes
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Histones
responsible for the first level of DNA packing in chromatin
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nucleosome
consists of DNA wound twice around a protein core of eight histones
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In the nucleosome the eight histones have 2 of each?
main histone type
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Centromeres and some other parts of chromosomes are?
highly condensed
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heterochromatin
condensed chromatin
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euchromatin
less compacted chromatin
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Histones can undergo chemical modifications that result in?
changes in chromatin organization
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Basis of nucleic acid hybridization
complementary base pairings of DNA
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Nucleic acid hybridization
base pairing of one strand of a nucleic acid to another complementary sequence
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Nucleic acid hybridization forms the foundation of?
virtually every technique used in genetic engineering
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genetic engineering
direct manipulation of genes for practical purposes
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plasmids
small circular DNA molecules that replicate separately from the bacterial chromosome
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recombinant DNA
Plasmid is inserted with foreign DNA from another source
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Gene cloning
production of multiple copies of a single gene
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Cloning vector
plasmid that carries the cloned DNA
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Gene cloning is used to make ___ and to produce ___.
many copies of a gene, protein product
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Restriction sites
bacterial restriction enzymes cut DNA molecules at specific DNA sequences
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Restriction enzymes usually yield?
restriction fragments
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The most useful restriction enzymes cleave ___ to produce __.
the DNA in a staggered manner, sticky ends
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Sticky ends can bond with?
complementary sticky ends of other fragments
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Researchers use gel electrophoresis to?
see the fragments produced by cutting DNA molecules with restriction enzymes
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Polymerase chain reaction
produce many copies of a specific target segment of DNA
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The key to PCR is?
Taq polymerase
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Taq polymerase
unusual, heat-stable DNA polymerase
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DNA polymerase extends the primers in ____ direction.
5' to 3'
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PCR is used to provide the specific ___ to be ___.
DNA fragments, cloned
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DNA Sequencing
laboratory technique for determining the exact sequence of nucleotides, or bases, in a DNA molecule
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Several groups are working on "____" methods, which involve moving ____.
nanopore, a single DNA strand through a tiny pore in a membrane
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CRISPR- Cas9 System
precisely modify a piece of DNA
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Why do researchers use CRISPR?
to disable a given gene in order to determine its function
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Researchers have also used CRISPR to repair?
a gene with a mutation
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In 2018, CRISPR was used to correct?
a genetic defect causing sickle-cell disease
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Altering genes in the insect may prevent?
it from transmitting the disease
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Gene Drive
Bias of inheritance of an engineered allele which rapidly drives the allele through the population.
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Who recognizes the dangers of CRISPR?
Jennifer Doudna

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