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Lecture 7: Genomes and their evolution Flashcards

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Genome:

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is the complete set of genes in an organism or the total genetic content in one set of chromosomes

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Genomics:

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is the study of whole sets of genes and their interactions

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Comparative genomics:

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is the analysis & comparison of genomes from different species

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Genome sequencing: most ambitious sequencing project to date:

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the Human Genome Project which began in 1990 and was completed by 2003

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Genome sequencing:

Chimpanzee genome was completed by

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2005 & today many more genomes have been completely sequences

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Human genome sequencing project originally took

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13 years at a cost of $1 billion

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In 2008 Illumina sequencing of human genome costs

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$350,000

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in 2014 Illumina annonced they could sequence human genome for

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$1000

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It is now possible to generate hundreds of gigabases of data very quickly, however:

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assembling genomes and annotated genomes still takes a long time.
- Computational and bioinformatic analyses lag behind our ability to generate data.

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How many genomes have been sequenced to date? By 2016..

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the genomes of more than 14,000 different organisms had been sequenced and another many more are in the process of being sequenced.

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Many of the sequences genomes are

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bacterial & archeal genomes. Approx 10& are eukaryotes, an include vertebrates, invertebrates, protists, fungi & plants

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Where are genomes sequenced?

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  • Genomes are sequenced by a variety of public and private organisations e.g.
    – National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
    – The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
    – The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
    – JGI – DOE Joint Genome Institute
    – Private companies e.g. Syngenta/Monsanto
    – Research lab in Universities, Research Institute
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How is genome sequencing prioritised?

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• The priority-setting process is based on the medical, agricultural and biological opportunities expected to be created by sequencing a given organism

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Genomes vary in:

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SIZE

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genomes of most bacteria range from

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1 to 6 million base pairs (Mb)

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Eukaryotic genomes are __ than bacteria

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larger

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most multicellular animals & plants have genomes with at least

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100 Mb

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fruit fly genome has how many base pairs?

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165 Mb

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Human genome number of base pairs

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3,000 Mb

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The genome of the single- celled yeast S. cerevisiae has about __ Mb

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12 Mb

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Within each kingdom/domain there is __ systematic relationship between _____ & ____

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no
genome size
phenotype

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Genomes vary in the number of

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genes they contain

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Free-living bacteria and archaea have ___ genes

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1,500 to 7,500

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The number of genes in eukaryotes ranges from

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about 5000 (e.g. the unicellular yeast) to at least 40,000 genes in multicellular eukaryotes

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The number of genes is / is not correlated with genome size

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IS NOT

e. g.
- the nematode worm C. elegans has 100 Mb genome and 20,000 genes
- Drosophilahas165Mb genome and 13,700 genes

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Eukaryotic genomescna produce more than one polypeptide per

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gene because of alternative splicing of RNA transcripts

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Gene diversity:

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the number of genes presenting a given length of DNA

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In bacterial genomes most of the DNA consists of

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genes coding for proteins, tRNA or rRNA

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Most eukaryotic DNA does

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not code for protein and is not transcribed into functional RNA molecules.

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Humans have ___ times as much noncoding DNA as bacteria

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10,000

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Multicellular eukaryotes have introns and a vast amount of

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non-protein coding DNA between genes.

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“junk DNA” is thought to play important roles in the cell for example

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  • For example, the genomes of humans, rats, and mice show high sequence conservation for about 500 noncoding regions.
  • The sesequences are more highly conserved than protein-coding genes in these species
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Only __ of the human genome codes for proteins or produces rRNAs and tRNAs

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1.5%

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Gene-relatedregulatory sequences and introns account for, respectively __% and __% of the human genome.

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5%

20%

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Intergenic DNA is

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Noncoding DNA found between genes

  • Pseudogenes
  • Repetitive DNA
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Pseudogenes are

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former genes that have accumulated mutations and are nonfunctional

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Repetitive DNA is

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is present in multiple copies in the genome

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About __% of repetitive DNA is made up of transposable elements

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44%

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Comparative genomics

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is the analysis and comparison of genomes from different species

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Comparative genomics allows us to

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  • Gain a better understanding of how species have evolved
  • Help explain how the evolution of development leads to morphological diversity
  • Determine the function of genes and non- coding regions of the genome
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Genome researchers look at many different features when comparing genomes:

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– sequence similarity,
– gene location,
– the length and number of coding regions (exons) within genes,
– the amount of noncoding DNA in each genome,
– highly conserved regions maintained in organisms
as simple as bacteria and as complex as humans.

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comparative genomics involves the use of

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computer programs that can line up multiple genomes and look for regions of similarity among them.
Some of these sequence-alignments tools are accessible to the public over the Internet.

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Comparative genomics can begin to address a range of questions e.g.

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  • Which sets of genes are common to many different organisms, or groups of organisms.
  • Which genes are unique?What do these genes do?
  • Which genes are necessary for multicellular life forms; which set of genes are only found in multicellular organisms but not in unicellular ones?
  • Where and how have new genes emerged in evolutionary history?
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Genome comparisons of distantly related species help us

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understand ancient evolutionary events

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Genome comparisons of closely related species help us

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understand recent evolutionary events

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Highly conserved genes that have changed very little over time help clarify relationships among species that

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diverged from each other long ago.

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Archaea and bacteria diverged from each other between

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2 & 4 billion years ago - know this form DNA sequencing

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Highly conserved genes can be studied in one model organism, and the results

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applied to other organisms

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Orthologs are

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Orthologs are genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation.
• Normally, orthologs retain the same function in the course of evolution.

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60 percent of genes are conserved between

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the fruit fly and humans - The two organisms appear to share a core set of genes

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When Scientists inserted human gene associated with early-onset Parkinson’s disease into fruit flies

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they displayed symptoms similar to those seen in humans with the disorder.
-Thus control of expression of this gene may be similar between the 2 organisms raising the possibility that Drosophila could act as a new model for testing therapies aimed at Parkinson’s.

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Researchers have compared the human genome with the genomes of the

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chimpanzee, mouse, rat, and other mammals.

  • Identifying the genes shared by these species but not by non- mammals provides clues about what it takes to make a mammal.
  • Identifying the genes shared by chimpanzees and humans but not by rodents gives information about primates.
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In single-base substitutions, chimp and human genomes differ by only

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1.2%

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chimps &humans:

Longer stretches of DNA show a ___% difference due to

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2.7%

insertions or deletions of larger regions in the genome of one or the other species.
– Many of the insertions are duplications or other repetitive DNA.

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A __ of the human duplications are not present in the chimpanzee genome and some contain regions associated with human diseases.

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third

  • Transcription factors regulate gene expression and thus play a key role in orchestrating the overall genetic program.

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