Chapter 16 Flashcards

0
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Change in genotype and phenotype due to the assimilation of external DNA

A

Transformation

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1
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what are the two chemical components of chromosomes

A

DNA and protein

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2
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What is the transformation factor?

A

DNA

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3
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How does a bacteriophage destroy a bacterial cell

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It puts DNA into a cell and it grows and burst

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4
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What element is common in DNA?

A

Phosphorus

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5
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What are Chargaff’s rules?

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Based composition varies between species and the number of adenine and Thymine are equal while the number of cystenine and guanine are equal

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6
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What are the three components of a nucleotide?

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Phosphate, sugar, nitrogenous base

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7
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Who are the two men who built the first molecular model of DNA?

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Watson and crick

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8
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Name two purines

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Adenine and guanine

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9
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Name 2 pyrimidines

A

Cystenine and thymine

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10
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Subunits run in opposite directions

A

Anti-parallel

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11
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Two parental strands come back together during replication

A

Semi conservative model of replication

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12
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Short stretches of DNA having specific sequence of nucleotides

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Origins of replication

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13
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Adds a new nucleotides to complementary strands

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Leading strand

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14
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Away from replication fork

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Lagging strand

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15
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Sacrament of DNA synthesized away from replication fork

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Okazaki fragments

16
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Untwist and separates strands

17
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Holds DNA strands apart

A

Single-strand binding proteins

18
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Adds short RNA segments to which DNA polymerase III can attach nucleotides during replication

20
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Add DNA nucleotides to new strands

A

DNA polymerase III

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Removes RNA primer and replaces it with DNA

A

DNA polymerase I

21
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Relieve strain caused by unwinding and joins DNA fragments together

A

Topoisomerase

22
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DNA cutting

23
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Join sugar phosphate to Okazaki fragments

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Reviews and repairs DNA
Repair enzymes
25
Linking of thymine bases which interfere with DNA replication
Thymine dimer
26
Adds segments to the ends of chromosomes to prevent shortening during replication
Telomerase
27
Eukaryotic chromatin that is condensed and is not transcribed
Heterochromatin
28
Less compacted chromatin and is available for transcription
Euchromatin
29
Recognizes splice sites and combines with proteins to form spliceosomes
snRNP
30
Editing complex containing "snurps" that removes introns and splices together exons
Spliceosomes
31
Region on DNA where RNA polymerase binds to start transcription
Promoter
32
Set the stage for the identity of the transforming molecule
Griffith
33
Showed the transforming molecule was DNA
Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty
34
Proved that DNA was protein
Hershey and Chase
36
Analyzed DNA with X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of DNA
Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin
37
DNA to mRNA
Transcription
38
mRNA to protein
Translation