Exam 3 Flashcards
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What is Biotechnology?
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is the manipulation of organisms or their components to make useful products.
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What is DNA Sequencing?
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Getting to know the order of nucleotides.
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What is cytogenetic map?
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Each chromosome has a distinct banding pattern, and each band is numbered to help identify a particular region of a chromosome.
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What do allele do?
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If you have an allele that causes an illness, you can sequence that fragment and you can know where its located on a chromosome and how the DNA sequence looks
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what do Generation of fragments require?
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enzymes that will cut DNA
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sticky ends
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pieces of DNA fragments with short strands on each side that are complementary to each other
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What are DNA nucleases?
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The proteins that cut are molecular
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what are different DNA nucleases in the lab generated?
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bacteria
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the enzymes generated from bacteria are very specific in what_______
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DNA sequence can be cut
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What is SNP?
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single nucleotide polymorphism
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The DNA fragments are visualized as ____ on the gel.
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bands
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DNA is negatively charged so it travels from _______
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- to +
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the suspect had the SNP the enzymes can only cut at the_______
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bottom
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what is Gel electrophoresis ?
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One indirect method of rapidly analyzing and comparing genomes
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During the process of electrophoresis, the ________ functions like a molecular sieve, separating the samples according to their size.
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agarose gel
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Restriction enzymes specifically recognize and cut short sequences of DNA called
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restriction sites
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what is the DNA profiling/ DNA fingerprints steps?
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- DNA isolation
- Amplification (copying) or markers (fragments) for analysis-PCR
- Sizes of amplified fragments are compared by electrophoresis
- Amplification (copying) or markers (fragments) for analysis-PCR
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Genetic profile
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An individual’s unique DNA sequence
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What is Short tandem repeats (STRs) ?
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genetic markers used to analyze current genetic profiles
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What is Short Tandem repeats?
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4 to 5 nucleotides that are repeated back to back
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Respects happened when _____
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during meiosis the homologous chromosomes might not line up perfectly because the amount of repeats
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_______ are used to amplify and then identify STRs of different lengths.
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PCR and gel electrophoresis
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DNA profiling has provided ?
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- Forensics
- Establishing family
relationships - Identification of
human remains.- Species identification
- Establishing family
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What are the two types of genetic markers that can facilitate DNA profiling?
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SNPs and STRs
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What is Amplifying DNA in Vitro?
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
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What does SNPs and STRs stand for?
SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms)
-STRs (Short tandem repeats)
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What is Polymerase chain reaction, PCR?
can produce many copies of a specific target segment of DNA
Three-step cycle; heating, cooling and replication
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What is Vivo?
amplification of DNA inside living organisms
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What is Vitro?
outside the living body
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What is Taq polymerase?
heat-stable DNA polymerase
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What Amplifying DNA in Vitro components of?
-DNA: template
-dNTPs: nucleotides (A,T,C, and G), the building bricks of DNA
-Two primers: single stranded DNA that bind to the template to initiate DNA replication
-DNA polymerase: enzyme which binds the dNTPs to the primers
-buffer: to adjust the PH and amount of alt that help the DNA polymerase keep its shape
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What are the Steps of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
1. A reaction mixes with dNTPs, a DNA template, copies of the two primers, and Taq polymerase.
2. Denaturation-heating the mixture to 95 cells to separate the two strands of the DNA.
3. Primer annealing-cooling the mixture allows the primers to bond to complementary sections of single- stranded target DNA homology. It will make hydrogen bonds.
4. Extension-heating the mixture to 72 cells causes the Taq polymerase to synthesize the complementary DNA strand from the dNTPs, staring at the primer. Starts adding nucleotides on the primer at the 3-prime end. This is Cycle 1
5. Steps 2-4 are repeated to make the necessary number of copies
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Requirements of PCR
PCR is possible only when DNA sequence information surrounding the gene of interest is available
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What information is critical to the success of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
The DNA sequence of the ends of the DNA to be amplified (flanking regions) must be known.
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Advantages of PCR
- Can amplify DNA from a small sample
- Results are fast
- Copying only the target sequence
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PCR and cellular DNA replication share which of the following characteristics?
extend new strand in 5 to 3 direction
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What piece of DNA do we want in making DNA?
genetic markers (SNP, STRS)
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How do you open up DNA?
Hot temperature 92 cells
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Who discovered tags polymerase?
Kary
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What is DNA sequencing?
Knowing the order of nucleotides
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What is restriction enzymes?
enzymes used to cut within a DNA molecule
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What is Gel electrophoresis?
One indirect method of rapidly analyzing and comparing genomes
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What is DNA fingerprinting?
a laboratory technique used to determine the probable identity of a person based on the nucleotide sequences of certain regions of human DNA that are unique to individuals.
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What is DNA profiling?
the process where a specific DNA pattern, called a profile, is obtained from a person or sample of bodily tissue
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Examples of genetic markers for molecular biology.
SNP, STRS
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What is PCR?
a simple and widely used process in which minute amounts of DNA can be amplified into multiple copies.
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Ingredients for PCR
dNTPs, a DNA template, copies of the two primers, and Taq polymerase, buffer
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What do you need in the tube to run PCR. Name four ingredients.
1. DNA template
2. primers
2. DNA polymerase
3. free nucleotides
4. buffer
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Place the steps in a cycle of PCR in the correct order.
1. Annealing-cool to allow primers to form hydrogen bonds with ends of target sequence.
2. Extension- DNA polymerase adds nucleotides to the 3' end of each primer.
3. Denaturation-Heat briefly to separate DNA strands.
3,1,2
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Look at slide 1
B
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What are PCR ingredients?
DNA template, primers, polymerase, free nucleotides, buffer
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Vivo
-In vivo means in a living organism
- In vivo uses RNA primers
-In vivo uses helicase to open the DNA double-strand
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vitro
-In vitro is in the tube
-In vitro uses DNA primers
-In vitro, uses hot temperature to open the strands
- In vitro amplification we use Taq polymerase
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What is Bacteria?
The DNA Toolbox
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What is Recombinant DNA?
If we but human gene into a bacteria, then that bacteria will carry recombinant DNA
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Is Recombinant DNA done in vitro or in vivo?
vitro (in the tube)
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What is Recombinant Organisms?
organism that carry foreign DNA
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What is Genetic engineering?
the direct manipulation of genes for practical purposes
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What is Biotechnology?
the manipulation of organisms or their genetic components to make useful products
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How is DNA mixing possible?
All DNA no matter if you think humans, birds, plants, bacteria we all speak the same language of nucleotide.
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What is vivo cloning?
Taking a piece of DNA and putting it into a living organism can help us make multiple copies
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What is DNA cloning?
to work directly with specific genes, scientists prepare well-defined DNA segments in multiple identical copies
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Which one uses bacteria to make a copy of genes vivo or vitro?
In vivo
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PCR is vitro cloning or Vivo cloning?
vitro cloning
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What is Plasmids?
are small circular DNA molecules that replicate separately from the bacterial chromosome
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What is Recombinant DNA?
Is produce when researchers insert DNA into plasmids. A molecule with DNA from two different sources
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What is DNA manipulation?
first extracting the plasmid from bacteria, then cutting open that plasmid with an enzyme that cuts in a very specific spot. Ones its cut you are able to put foreign DNA into it. The foreign DNA is stuck with sticky ends and that is called recombinant plasmid.
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Is Vitro cloning is very long or very short?
Very short
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steps for Gene cloning
first extracting the plasmid from bacteria, then cutting open that plasmid with an enzyme that cuts in a very specific spot. Ones its cut you are able to put foreign DNA into it. The foreign DNA is stuck with sticky ends and that is called recombinant plasmid. Then you have to put the plasmid back into bacteria and we stress it with heat shock. We need to recover bacteria and lead to multiply. Whenever the bacteria multiplies, the recombinant plasmid will multiply as well we get the clones of a gene. Next day you can extract that plasmid from the bacteria cut that gene of interest out and you will have multiple copies of it
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Why is bacteria used?
It takes 20 minutes for bacteria to multiply and we can get many of them in short period of time
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What is Cloning Vector?
A plasmid used to clone a foreign gene
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Would it matter if I go back to my plasmid and insert the DNA in different ways?
no it wont matter
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Gene cloning in vivo steps?
1. Plasmid DNA is isolated
2. DNA containing the gene of interest is isolated
3. Plasmid DNA is treated with restriction enzyme (molecular scissors) That cuts in one place, opening the circle
4. DNA with the target gene is put into plasmid
5. Plasmid is put into bacteria
6. Each time bacteria multiplies, the gene will be multiplied- gene cloning (making many copies)
7. Protein of interest is harvested from the genetically modified bacteria
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What is Genomic Library?
is made using bacteria is the collection of recombinant vector clones produced by cloning DNA fragments from an entire genome
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How are Genomic books made?
You can chop the genome of a species I'm interested in and put every piece into a different vector that will create books like in a library
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Why do we have vectors?
Plasmid cant not carry to much cant stick to much DNA. We have vectors for more space
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Plasmids capacity space
have a capacity of 15 kb
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Phage (lambda)s capacity
have a capacity of 25 kb
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Cosmids or Fosmids capacity
Have a capacity of 35-45 kb
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Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) capacity
Have a capacity of 50-300 kb
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Yeast artificial chromosomes (YAC) capacity
Have a capacity of 300->1500 kb
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Human artificial chromosomes (HAC) capacity
Have a capacity of > 2000 kb
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What was the first drug approved by the FDA
Making Humulin
Humulin was the first recombinant DNA drug approved by the FDA
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Transgenic bacteria uses
- Insulin
- Vaccine
- Human growth
-hormone
- Vaccines
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bacteria can decompose petroleum and are useful in ______
cleaning up oil spills
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Human insulin made in and use?
Made in E. coli and use treatment for diabetes
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Human growth, hormone (HIGH) made in and used in?
Made in E.coli and use in treatment for growth defects
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Taxol made in and use in?
made in E.coli and use in treatment for ovarian cancer
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Erythropoietin (EPO) is made in and use in?
Made in Mammalian cells and made for treatment for anemia
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Factor VIII is made in and use in?
Made in Mammalian cells and use for treatment for hemophilia
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Tissue Plasminogen activator (TPA) is made in and use for?
made in Mammalian cells and use for treatment for heart attacks and some strokes
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Fist modification on plants was made by
European corn
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What is Traditional breeding?
when I take related species and let them cross, mate, produce progeny Traditional breeding
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How long does radiational breeding take
12-15 years and a lot of space for a new variety
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What is Recombinant DNA?
Is when you can take DNA from a fish and put it inside of a strawberry
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How much time does Recombinant DNA take and how long does it take and who is crossed and hoe many genes transfer?
-single gene transfer
-Requires 2-3 years
-small space
-crossing unrelated species
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What are Two primary concerns with modification of foods?
1. Fear that GM foods could be hazardous to human health
2. Fear that crops carrying genes from other species might harm the environment
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What is Human gene therapy?
is a recombinant DNA procedure that seeks to trat disease by altering the genes of the affected person
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How are vectors transfer Genes to Human Cells?
Viruses used as vectors.
1. Normal human gene isolated and cloned
2.Human gene inserted into virus
3. virus injected into patient
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What is Crispr
is how bacteria deals with a viral infection
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What is Cas9 ?
chops the DNA
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What is Guide RNA ?
guides the protein where to go and cut so the right viral DNA is recognized
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What is Gene editing?
adding, disrupting, or changing the sequence of specific genes
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Agriculture has three methods of breeding. What are there?
1. Traditional breeding
2. Breeding with genetically modified organisms
3. Breeding so far with knocking out undesirable genes (crisper)
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All people speak the same language of _____
nucleotides
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What are Genes?
the fundamental unit of heredity-made of DNA
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A
T
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G
C
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C
G
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T
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What is a DNA?
is comprised of a polymer (linked string) of chemical subunits called nucleotides
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How many nucleotide does humans have?
3 billion nucleotide long DNA
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What is Gene expression?
The process of making proteins
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How is protein made?
Start with our body we have cells (so many)
-inside the cell there is a nucleus where DNA is found in forms of chromosomes
-DNA is a double-stranded nucleic acid that has coding sequences for making proteins
-proteins are made in the cytoplasm
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What is messenger RNA?
translation of information form nucleic to cytoplasm
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What is DNA sequencing?
Knowing the order of nucleotides in the given segment of DNA
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What is The Human Genome project (HGP)?
the goal of the project was to sequence the human genome
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What are the The Mani players for The Human Genome project (HGP)?
National institute of health (NIH)
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The three people that led the (HGP)
1. Francis Collins
2. Eric Lander
3. Craig Venter
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Who started Celera?
Celera
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An international consortium was built with the involvement of all those countries which are:
-Great Britain
-US
-Japan
-France
- China
- Germany
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When was The end of The Human Genome project?
was April 25, 2003
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The DNA of two people of the _____ is 99.9% identical
same sex
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How much did the HGP cost U.S. taxpayers?
- $2.7 billion
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What did the people get In return for paying for the HGP?
Improvement in human health
-Biotechnology and drugs
- Development industries
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What are they trying to do for the future for HGP?
cheaper and shorter time
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Why do we sequence human genome?
- Discover gene functions
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The Human Genome Project help to discover?
Parkinson disease
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Program to ensure that genetic information would be safeguarded, not used in discriminatory ways
- ELSI Focuses on several issues
- Privacy
- Fairness
- Discrimination
Use of genetic information in reproductive decisions
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With the Human Genome project we learned:
- Human DNA has about 3 billion base pairs
- 800 phone books
- 200 actionable genes
-Number of genes about 24,000
-Only a small portion of our genes are coding genes (expressed in the form of proteins) (1.5%)
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What is Genomics?
is the study of an organism's complete set of genes and their interactions. They are passed to the next generation.
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- Data base available:
-(NCBI) National center for Bioeconomy information
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What is deCODE?
Icelandic Genetic Database
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Number of genes is not equal to number of ______
proteins
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How can we get Genetic profile?
can be obtained by analysis of tissue or body fluids
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Laws that protect privacy
1. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ACT) from 1996
2. GINA (The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act)-bill passed in the spring of 2008
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When we study DNA we study
genomics
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When we study proteins we study
proteomics
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To discover which genes are expressed in certain cells is to_____
identify the mRNAs being made
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What is Nucleic acid probes
complementary molecules, of either DNA or RNA
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What is In situ hybridization use for?
uses fluorescent dyes attached to probes to identify the location of specific mRNAs in place in the intact organism
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What are fluorescent dye or radioactivity used
Probe that are marked with either fluorescent dye or radioactivity are used to determine the localization of different gene expression
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When we work with RNA that test, in general, is called
Northern
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When we work with proteins that test in general is called
Western
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_______are used for studying DNA
Southern
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Northerns are useful for studying
RNA
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Westerns are used to study
proteins
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Northerns and Westerns address
gene expression
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What is Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
is useful for comparing amounts of specific mRNAs in several samples at the same time
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What is Complementary DNA (cDNA)
serves as a template for PCR amplification of the gene of interest
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What is DNA microarray assays?
compare patterns of gene expression in different tissues, at different times, or under different conditions
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Genomics
- DNA world
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Transcriptomics
RNA world
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(a lot of work is done here in cDNA )
Transcriptomics
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cDNA is complementary
RNA, messenger RNA
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cDNA is complementary is generated by
reverse transcription
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Proteomics
Protein world
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Number of genes is not equal to number of
proteins
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What is Genomics
is the study of whole set of genes and their interactions
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What is Bioinformatic
is the application of computational methods to the storage and analysis of biological data
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What is Systems biology
approach can be applied to define gene circuits and protein interaction network
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Genome size increases as we move from
bacteria Archaea to plants and animals
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Genome size for Bacteria and Archaes
Most are 1-6 MB
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Genome size for Eurkarya
Most are 10-4,000 Mb, but a few are much larger
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Number of genes of Bacteria and Archaea
1,500-7,500
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Number of genes of Eukarya
5,000-40,000
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Gene density for Bacteria and Archaea
Higher than in eukaryotes
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Gene density for Eukarya
Lower than in prokaryotes (within eukaryotes, lower density is correlated with larger genomes.)
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Introns Bacteria and Archaea
Nine in Protein-coding genes (Bacteria)
Present in some genes (Archaea
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Introns Eukarya
Present in most genes of multicellular eukaryotes, but only in some genes of unicellular eukaryotes
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Other noncoding DNA Bacteria and Archaea
Very little
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Other noncoding DNA
Can exist in large amounts; generally more repetitive noncoding DNA in multicellular eukaryotes
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coding sequencees we have
1.52%
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introns we have
20%
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we have non-coding DNA
15%
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What is RNA interference
refers to stopping messenger RNA from being translated
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What is MicroRNAs (miRNAs)?
are small single-stranded RNA molecules that can bind to mRNA
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What is Transposable elements?
move from one site to another in a cell's DNA they are present in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes
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What is Transposons?
Which move by means of a DNA intermediate and require a transposase enzyme
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What is Retrotransposons?
which move by means of an RNA intermediate, using a reverse transcriptase
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Genetic markers
SNPS
STRS
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What is Multigene families
Collection of identical or very similar genes
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What is In situ hybridization
to study locally either DNA RNA or protein
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Chromatin is the string of DNA wrapped around ______
histones
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Chromatin structure is essential for starting
transcription
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When chromosome is unpacked DNA is available for
transcription
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Histones have arms those arms when they are not unoccupied they will
hug the near by histone molecule
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Histone When they are occupied they
can not hug
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When histones are hugging We have heterochromatin the gene is turn
off its not available for transcription
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When the acetyl groups occupied arms of histones they can not hug. The DNA is exposed. The gene is turn
on
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Methyl groups bind directly to
DNA
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If I attach a methyl group to DNA and now I want to transcribe it. DNA Methylation blocks transcription and gene is
Turn off
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Piwi blocks our expression of genes by attaching to
chromatin
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What is Epigenetics
in addition to DNA. Added to either directly to DNA or to histones that regulate gene expression that turn gene of or on. Some of those can be passed to next generation
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microRNAs acts during protein synthesis but also can affect chromatin structure causing
epigenetic effect.
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Epigenetic tags are whipped out during
zygote formation
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