Exam 1 Study Flashcards
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1871
Friedrich Miescher identified the presence of ‘nuclein’
1953
James Watson and Francis Crick, Rosaland Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, discover the double helix structure of DNA
1977
Frederick Sanger develops a DNA sequencing technique
1983
Kary Mullis develops polymerase chain reaction a technique used for amplification of DNA
1987
the term genomics first used in scientific literature
1990
Human Genome Project is launched
2003
Human Genome Project is finishes
2007
Illumina “next-generation” sequencer is available
haploid cell number of bases
3 million
How much of the mammalian genome is coding
2%
Mitochondrial DNA inheritance
strictly maternal
Chromatin
DNA with a protein scaffolding
DNA is wrapped around histones
Constitutive heterochromatin
inactive
Centromeres are used by the cell
during cell division to make sure that each daughter cell gets a copy of each chromosome
Centromeres are
highly repetitive
Telomeres are located_____ and do what
at the ends of chromosomes
protect the ends of the chromosomes
Repetitive DNA is
Tandem
Interspersed
Segmental duplications
Lines are what percent of the genome
17%
around 5-6 Kb
Sines are what percent of the genome
11%
<500 bp
Cytoplasmic genome
circular
uniparental inheritance
small compared to nuclear
thousands of copies per cell
heteroplasmy
Segmental duplications
low copy repeats
blocks that range from 1 to 400 kb in length
occur at more than one spot in the genome
and typically share a high level of sequence identity
about 5% of the human genome
Centromeres are how may bases
100s Kb to Mb
Telomeres are how many bases
10s Kb
Three parts of DNA or RNA
Pentose sugar
nitrogenous base
Phosphate group attached to the 5’ carbon