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What are the 4 stages of the eukaryotic cell cycle?

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  • G1
  • S
  • G2
  • M
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What happens at the G1 stage?

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Cell with chromosome in the nucleus

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What happens at the S stage?

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DNA replication = chromosome duplication occurs

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What happens at the G2 stage?

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Cell with duplicated chromosomes in nucleus

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What happens at the M stage?

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Mitosis = chromosome seperation

1 cell becomes 2

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What does the chromosome state reflect?

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The need to replicate and partition the genetic material prior to cell division

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What are three important areas of a chromosome?

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  • Telomeres
  • Centromeres
  • Origin of replication
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Where do you find the telomeres on the chromosome?

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At the ends of the chromosome

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What is the telomeres?

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areas of highly repetitive DNA that protect chromosome ends from DNA degradation, recommendation and end fusion with other chromosomes

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What is the centromere on a chromosome?

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Repetitive DNA which forms the spindle attachment sites in mitosis

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What is the origin of replication?

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Special sequence where duplication of the DNA begins; each chromosome will have many origins

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At which stage is the DNA long and not condensed?

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Interphase

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At which stage is the chromosome condense and visible underneath a microscope?

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Mitosis

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Who discovered semiconservative replication?

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Meselson and Stahl 1958

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What is semiconservative replication?

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Two stands of parental double helix unwind (by DNA helicase) and each specifies a new daughter strand by base-pairing rules

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Describe Meselson and Stahl 1958 experiment:

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  • Density ultra centrification
  • molecules of different densities with sediment at different levels in the column
  • Grew bacteria in medium N-15
  • Extracted the DNA from N-15
  • N-15 centrificated - sediment was lower than N-14
  • Shared N-15 into N-14 medium and found as replication went on DNA became more and more like N-14
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Which is heavier N-15 or N-14?

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N-15

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What can we concluded from Meselson and Stahl 1958 experiment?

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N-14 is integrated in DNA

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What is required for DNA synthesis?

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-Enzyme (DNA polymerase) + Mg2+
dNTPs (dATP, dCTP, dGTP, dTTP)
-Single stranded template DNA
-Primer 3’-OH
-DNA synthesis 5’ to 3’ direction
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What is the problem in DNA replication?

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That there is not enough time to replicate from start to finish

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What solves the problem of not having enough time to replicate from start to finish?

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The origins of replication break up the time

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What does the involvement of the origin of replication make DNA replication?

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bidirectional

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What does bidirectional DNA replication form?

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Replication bubbles

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Which is bigger eukaryotic or bacterial genome?

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eukaryotic

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What is the shape of the eukaryotic genome?
Linear
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What is the shape of the bacterial genome?
Circular
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Is the bacterial genome compact?
Yes
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What is the amount of base pairs in the human genome?
3000 million bp
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What is the amount of base pairs in the e.coli genome?
5 million bp
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Describe the replication of bacterial DNA:
- Starts at the only origin of replication - forms a theta structure - 2 circular daughter DNA molecules are produced
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Describe the replication of DNA in a eukaryotic cell?
- Both strands are copied at a replication fork - Synthesis in a 5' to 3' direction - leading strand: replicates easily as it is going in the 3' to 5' - lagging strand: hard to replicate as strand is going in 5' to 3' so synthesis is discontinuously so gaps left
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What is caused in the DNA replication fork of the lagging strand?
Okazaki fragments
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Describe the lagging strand synthesis:
- Primase synthesis short RNA oligonucleotides (primer) copied from DNA - DNA polymerases elongate RNA primers with new DNA - Nucleases remove RNA at 5’ end of neighbouring fragment and DNA polymerase fills the gap - DNA ligase connects adjacent Okazaki fragments
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to unwind the DNA?
DNA helicase
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to stabilise ssDNA?
ss-binding protein
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to synthesis RNA primer?
primase (RNA polymerase)
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to synthesise new DNA strand?
DNA polymerase
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to proof-read?
DNA polymerase
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to keep DNA polymerase on the DNA?
Sliding clamp
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to trim the Okazaki fragements??
Nuclease
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required to join the Okazaki fragements?
DNA ligase
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What was the enzyme at the replication fork required for the other factors?
Replisome
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What does DNA helicase do?
Unwinds double-stranded DNA
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What does ssDNA do?
Prevents base-pairing until DNA polymerase arrives
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What is primase?
Specialised RNA polymerase
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What does sliding clamp do?
Attached to DNA polymerase which encircles double stranded DNA
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What does DNA ligase do?
joins Okazaki fragments
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What does nuclease do?
trims Okazaki fragments
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How is the sliding clamp loaded around the DNA?
By a clamp loader
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How are histones loaded onto newly synthesis DNA?
By histones chaperones
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What is the problem with DNA helicase unwinding DNA?
Causes supercoilling
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What enzyme unwinds the supercoiling?
Topoisomerase
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What is the total error possible in DNA replication?
1 in 10^10
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What is the error per nucleotides added during 5' to 3' polymerisation?
1 in 10^5
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What is the error of not being corrected in 3' to 5' exonucleolytic proofreading?
1 in 10^2
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What is the error of not being corrected in strand-directed mismatch repair?
1 in 10^3
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What is more accurate DNA polymerase or RNA polymerase?
DNA polymerase
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Why is DNA polymerase more accurate than RNA polymerase?
-Proof-read (incorrect nucleotides removed by 3' to 5' exonuclease)
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What detects incorrect base-paring in newly-synthesised DNA?
Mismatch repair protein MutS
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What are mutations in human Mismatch Repair genes associate with?
Predisposition to some cancers

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