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Genetics and Molecular biology (68 cards)

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transposition

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movement of a piece of chromosome to another chromosomal location

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transposable genetic element

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a “jumping gene” , DNA fragment that can move to a new location on the same chromosome or even to another chromosome

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Molecular genetics

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studies the function and structure of genes at a molecular level

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Chromosomes are composed of two types of large molecules:

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DNA and protein

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a DNA molecule is made of a chain of ___________

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nucleotides

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each nucleotide consists of 3 parts

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  1. a nitrogen containing compound called a BASE
  2. a 5-carbon sugar called DEOXYRIBOSE
  3. a phosphate group
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four types of nucleotides occur in DNA

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  1. Adenine (A)
  2. Guanine (G)
  3. Cytosine (C)
  4. Thymine (T)
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Name the purines

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Adenine (A), and Guanine (G)

Girls Are PURe

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name the pyrimidines

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Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T)

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what are the pairs of bases in DNA?

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Guanine and Cytosine G=C

Adenine and Thymine A=T

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The DNA in a cell must perform 4 major tasks

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  1. store genetic information
  2. copy that information for future generations of cells
  3. express that information
  4. occasionally change its message, or MUTATE
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Most DNA in plants resides in the _______

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nucleus

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About ______ mutations occur with each cell division

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4,000

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During transcription

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a copy of the gene message is made using RNA building blocks

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During transcription, Thymine is replaced by

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Uracil

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When transcription is complete,

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RNA travels to the cytoplasm, where translation occurs

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during translation,

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the RNA message provides the information necessary to construct proteins

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three different types of RNA are made by

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transcription

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the three types of RNA made by transcription and their functions

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messenger RNA (mRNA): translated to produce proteins
transfer RNA (tRNA): machinery used to translate mRNA
ribosomal RNA (rRNA): machinery used to translate mRNA
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RNA polymerase

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responsible for assembling the RNA strand

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In most eukaryotes, less than 10% of the DNA in the genome contains genes, the rest is …….

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noncoding DNA

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At the beginning of every gene, a DNA sequence called a ________ ______ acts as a signal flag

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promoter region

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what does the promoter region act as?

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it acts as a signal flag to indicate to the machinery scanning the DNA that a gene is ahead

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A __________ DNA sequence at the end of each gene ___________

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terminator, signals the transcription enzymes to fall off the DNA molecule

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A transcript is a
single stranded RNA molecule
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anticodon
a sequence of three nucleotides that recognizes a codon on mRNA and base pairs with it
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Ribosomes
act as workbenches during protein synthesis
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mutation
changes in a DNA sequence
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mutagens
can alter DNA sequences
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mutations are either _______ or ________
somatic or germ-line
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somatic mutation
occurs in a body cell and will exist in all cells produced by mitosis of the mutant cell
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somatic mutations may show up as a _____
sport, or a branch that looks different from the others on a plant
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Germ line mutation
occurs in tissue that will produce gametes, or sex cells
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unlike somatic mutations, germ line mutations will be passed on to future generations through _____
seeds
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Cytogenetics
the study of chromosome behavior and structure from a genetic point of view
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inversion
results when a piece of chromosome is broken and reinserted in the opposite orientation
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translocation
occurs when a piece of a chromosome breaks off and becomes attached to another one
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speciation
formation of a new species
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polyploid
a plant that has at least one set of chromosomes
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Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who studied
pea plants
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parental generation
original plants in making the crosses
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filial generation
the parental generation's first offspring
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offspring of the filial generation are called
second filial generation
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law of unit characters
factors, which always occur in pairs, control the inheritance of traits
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alleles
paired factors of genes
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locus
genes are always at the same position (LOCUS) on a chromosome
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Law of dominance
for any given pair of alleles, one may mask the expression of the other
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the expressed allele is referred to as
dominant
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the allele that is masked, or not expressed is
recessive
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phenotype
refers to the physical appearance of the organism
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genotype
refers to the genetic information responsible for contributing to that phenotype
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Homozygous
both alleles of a pair are identical | Ex: GG
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Heterozygous
the pair is composed of contrasting alleles | Ex: Gg
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Monohybrid cross
a cross is made between two true-breeding parents differing for that trait, producing an F1 generation, then, these F1 plants are intercrossed to produce an F2 generation
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Dihybrid cross
crossing the F2 generation with itself
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the law of independent assortment
the factors (genes) controlling two or more traits segregate independently of each other
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genes that do not segregate independently are said to be
linked
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Punnett Square
a diagram used to determine the genotypes of zygotes
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backcross
a cross between a hybrid and one of its parents
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testcross
cross between a plant with the dominant phenotype and a homozygous recessive plant
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incomplete dominance
absence of dominance, Ex: pink snapdragons
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Quantitative traits
exhibit a range of phenotypes, Ex: fruit yield
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quantitative trait loci
Chromosomal fragments that contain genes that influence the the trait and behave like Mendelian genes
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extranuclear DNA is found in
both mitochondria and chloroplasts
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endosymbiotic theory
mitochondria and chloroplasts were free living bacteria at some time in their evolutionary history
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maternal inheritance
extra nuclear genes are typically passed on by the female parent
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map unit
equals 1% crossing over between a pair of genes
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Hardy Weinberg Law
states that the proportions of dominant alleles to recessive ones in a large, random mating population will remain the same from generation to generation unless there are forces that change those proportions.

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