Lecture 6 Flashcards
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contains one set of chromosomes
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haploid
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contains two sets of chromsomes, one from each parent
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diploid
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specialized reproductive cells; sperm or eggs gerneated through meiosis
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gametes
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haploid gametes fuse to fomr a diploid cell (Zygote)
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fertilization
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divided by mitosis to become a multipcellular organism
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zygote
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gametes and their precursors
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gerline cells
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form the rest of the body and leave no progeny
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somatic cells
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chromosomes common to both sexes; one from each parent in each diploid nucleus
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autosomes
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X and Y
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sex chromosomes
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meiosis creates what two genetic diversity?
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Random segregation of homologs during meiosis and crossing over
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gametes are?
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haploid
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What arise from meiosis?
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involves two cell division buy one round of DNA synthesiss to produce half the number of chromsomes
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When do chromosomes replicate?
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S phase
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How are two chromatids bound?
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cohesion complexes
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What does homologs do in meiosis I
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pair ,recombine, and separate
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seperation of homologs in meiosis?
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anaphase I
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Meiosis II DNA replication?
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none
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divided to produce 4 haploid duahgter cells?
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sister chromatids in meiosis II
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When do homlogs begin to pair?
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in prophase I, which can last weeks /day/ years
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What is a 4 chromatid structure?
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bivalent
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What does a stable piaring require crossing over?
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chiasma
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What are hologs joined by protein strucutre?
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synaptonemal complex
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What small region of homology btw X and Y allows them to piar?
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pseudoautosomal region
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homlogs begin to condesne/pair
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leptotene
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homologs pair and synaptonemal complexes form
zygotene
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synapsis is complete; crossing over occurs
pachytene
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synaptonemal complex begins to break down; homologs begin to spearte but remain attached at chiasmata
diplotene
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reach maximum condensation; separation of homologs and transition stage into metaphase
diakinesis
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What do transvers filaments btw homlogs form?
synaptonemal complex, important for crossing over
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When do cohesin compelxes assemble on DNA?
during S phase and bind sister chromatids
- major components of axial core of each homolog
- play important role in segregating homlogs in meiosis I
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What attach to microtubules coming form same pole?
kinetochores on the 2 sister chromatids
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When do homlogs separate?
anaphase I
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Arms of sitster chromatids separate at anaphase I,
resolving chiasmata and allowing homlogs to seperate
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What cleaves the cohesion complexes in sister chromatids in anaphase II?
separase
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When is human female meiossi arrestes for years after diplotene?
meiosis I is completed only at ovulation
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memiosis II in females is only completed after?
fertilization
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homlogs fail to spearate properly
nondisjunction
- erros are very common during egg development and increase with advanceing maternal age
- leading cause of spontaneous abortions and metal retardation in humans
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cells with abnormal choromsome numbers
aneuploid
- trsomey 21/down syndrom: most common singl cause of metal retardation
- 90% of trisomy 21 individsual, the additional chromsomes is materal in orgin
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cells with normal number of chromsomes
euploid
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random distirbution of maternal/paternal homlogs can produe?
2^n(2^23=8.4X10^6)
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What is variation increased by?
crossing over.
| -2-3 crossovers per human homolog
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Female mammals begin meiosis in?
the fetal ovary
- arrest in meiosis I
- meosis 1 completed at ovulation
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In males meiosis being in the testes at?
puberty
- proceeds without arres
- takes 24 days to complete meiosis
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20% of eggs are aneuploid vs
only 3 to 4% of sperm
| - a cell cycle checkpoint is activated in sperm w metiotic errors, resultiping in apoptosis
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25% of all human conceptions are aneuploid
-mostly due to nondisjunction in oocytes at Meiosis I
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What are male gametes more prone to?
new DNA mutations as a result of undergoing more mitotic cell divisions
-acvanced paternal age
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found in all vertebrate embryos and give rise to gametes
primordial gemr cells(PGCs)
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PGCs cells migrate to deleveoping gonads
ovaries/testes
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intially germ cells go through
mitosis
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in mammals, diving egg is totipotnet fo?
fist few rounds of cell division; then differentiate into PGCs
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somatic cell fates must be suppressed by?
gene repression
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Translation of certain RNAs must be?
inhibited
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p granules
accumulate at pole after fertiliation and?
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cell signaling lead to ? in gonaldal development
proliferation and migration of PGCs to developing gonad
| -genital ridge
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uncommitted to cell fate
PGCs
-can be removed and cultured w signaling protines to fomr cell lines for any cell type for the body except extraembryonic cells---pluripotent
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sex chromsomes in genital ridege determine?
if gonad...
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Female
46, XX
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Males
46, XY
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Sperm determines sex of
embryo
- presence of absence of Y determines sex of indvidual
- 45, X patients are still female
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Y directs?
genital ridge to develop into testis
| -default pathway is female
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sex determining region of Y
SRY
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necessary and sufficient for testis development in mammals
SRY Gene
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can cause sex reverasl
- XX mouse + SRY= develops as a male(sterile)
- XY male w inactivating SRY mutation=develops as female
SRY gene
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differntiate into Sertolie cells
expression of SRY
| -testis supprot cells
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SRY
encodes DNA biding protein that regulates transctiption of genes involved in Sertolie development
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What is expressed in all vertebreates?
Sox9
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Sox 9
...
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What does SRY in somatic cells do?
direct differentitation into sertolie cells instead of follicle cells
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What doe sertolie cells secrete?
anti mullerian hormone
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anti-mullerian hormone
- suprresses fmale development
| - causees mullerian duct to regress
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SRY induce
leydig cell differentation in other sperm cells
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activated egg can give rise to completely new organisms
eggs
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What is egg activations triggered by?
fertlization- fusion of sperm and egg
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What occurs in some lizards and frogs?
parthenogentic
- activation in thea bsence of sperm
- mammals cannot due to imprinting
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What can be used to reprogram
...
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Eggs contain?
stockpiles of nutrients for intial development of the embryo
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What is the egg nutritional reserve?
yolk
- rich in lipids; protines and polysaccharides
- yolk grandules; discrete yolk-containing structures
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What is the egg coat made of?
glycoprotien rich extra cellular matrix
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what does the extra cellular matrix protect from?
mechanical damage
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Oogenesis cells migrate into the gonad?
primordial germ cell
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What undergo mitotic cell divisions before entering into meiosis in oogenesisi?
diploid oogonia
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When are primary oocytes fomred?
during gestation of the human embryo
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Primary oocytes arrest at?
prophase I of meiosis I
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When does primary oocytes resume progression?
at ovulation
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How does cytoplams divide in oognesis?
asymettrically
- small polar body
- large secondary oocyte
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When is the sendocary oocyte arrested?
metaphase II
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How do eggs achieve lg size?
have extra gene copies in the cell
| -growth occurs afteer DNA replication
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How do eggs import yolk proteins?
through recetor mediated endocytosis
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oocyte surrounded by single layer of follicle cells
primordial follicles
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multiple layers of follicle cells(granulosa cells) surround grwoing oocyte
developing follicles
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some developing follicels go on to acquire fluid filled cavity
antrum
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FSH surge induces 10-12 antral follicels; one becomes dominate
puberty
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What does the FSH+LH in middle of menstral cycle trigger?
ovulation and primary oocyte...
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sperm
much smaller
- stripped down
- no cytoplamic organlels
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sperm have two distinct regions
head-contains nucleus
| tail-propulsino
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What is the midpiece of a sperm packed wiht?
mitochondria to power flagellum for movment
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What proteins are require in sperm?
Dynein motor proteins requre ATP hydorlysis to slide microtubules
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What does the acrosomal vescile contain?
hydrolytic enzymes
- released by exocytosis in acrome reaction
- helps penetrate eggs outer coat
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When does meiosis for sperm begin?
puberty
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When do piared homologs cross over?
prophase I of metaphase
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What do primary spermatocytes produce when they complete M I?.
two secondary spermatocytes w 22 duplicated autosomes and X or Y
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What happens to sendodary spermatocytes
enters M II to porduce 4 haploid spermatids
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What happen to spermatids?
they differentiate into sperm which escape into lumen of seminiferous tubule
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Where are sperm stored and undergo further matureation?
epididymis
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sperm development
primordial germ cell.... spermatogonium.... primary spermatocyte.... secondary spermatocyte... spermatid... mature sperm
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Where does spermatogenesis occur?
seminiferous tubuels
- maintina close contace with sertoli cells
- spermatogonia undergo limited mitotic dividison before endering meiosis I
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Progeny of spermatogonium don't complete?
cytokinesis
- they remain connected through cytoplamic bridges---syncytium
- each share common cytoplasm
- produced in synchronous batches
- have access to diploid genome for their development
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fusion of egg and sperm
fertilization
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process required to acquire capacity to fertilize an egg
capacitation
- takes 5-6 hrs in humans
- completed in oviduct
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What does sperm undergo during fertilization?
- greatly increases motility of flagellum
| - makes sperm capable of undergoing acrosome reaction
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What must be present in female genital tract for fertilization to occur?
albumin- helps extract cholestrerol from membran, increasing ability to fuse with acrosome membrane
-Ca2+ and HCO3- activate adenyl cyclase in sperm to produce cAMP---helps to initiate capacitation-associated changes
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What is released egg surrounded in?
granulosa cells and ECM rich in hyaluronic acid
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What must capacitated sperm penetrate?
granulosa cells using hyaluronidase
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WHat does zona pellucida act as?
species barrier
- induces sperm to undergo acrosome reaction
- help sperm to tunnel
- sperm can bind and fuse w plasma membrane of egg
- sperm binds egg plasma first by tip and then side
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What membrane proteins are neded for sperm binding?
ZP1 cross- links filaments
| ZP 2 and 3 form long filaments
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Fusion with sperm induces?
cortical reaction
- cortical granules release contents
- meiosis to resume
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What is cortical reation triggered by?
increased Ca2+ in cytosol
| -egg activation can be artificailly triggered by injecting CA2+ into egg
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Cortical reaction prevents?
polyspermy
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Cortical reaction releases enzymes to change?
zona pellucida so sperm cant penetrate
- inactivation of ZP3 so it no longer binds sperm or induces acrosoem reaction
- ZP2 is cleaved which makes ZP impenetrable
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What fuse in the zygote?q
2 haploid nuclei (pronuclei)
| -forms a single diploid nucleus
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What do sperm contribute?
centrosomes and centrioles
| -not present in eggs
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Sperm contribut cetersome for duplicates to assesmble mitotic spindle, in polyspermy
extra mitotic spindles are present
| -leads to fualty segregation of chromosomes and aneuploidy
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Reproductive cloning
use foster mother to grow identical clone
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therapeutic cloning
lab growth of only certain cells
