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cancer

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a build up of many mutations
-the longer you live the more you mutate therefore increasing your risk of cancer

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oncogene active

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can mutate the p53 gene which will lead to the mutated growth of malignant tumors

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mutations in a person affect the next generation true or false

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false because the mutations in their body cells only affect them

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mutations in sperm or eggs affect the next generation true or false

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true because if the mutation is in the egg or sperm it will get passed down to the offspring

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why do male make more mutations

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because they make more sperm than females make eggs
-men have a high chance for autism and schitzophrenia

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point mutation

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one base is affected
-one change in nucleotide (nucleotide substitution) or an indel (insertion or deletion and not silent)

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a silent mutation

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-can be a point mutation
-does not change the amino acid being encoded

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why do point mutations not cause a change in the amino acid

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because the genetic code is redundant and therefore a single change does not necessarily change the aa being encoded because there are many base sequences encoding for the same aa

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missence mutation

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a change in the DNA that results in a change in the amino acid being encoded
-can result from nucleotide substition, indel etc

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inversion

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dna turned backwards

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nonsense

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base is converted into a stop codon
-results in a truncated protein

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promotor

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turns on a gene
-RNA pol binding site
-a mutation here is outside the coding sequence

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termination signal mutation

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-this signal will stop RNA synthesis
-this mutation is outside the coding sequence

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splice donor and acceptor mutation

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causes a misprocessing of RNA
-mutation outside the coding sequence

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ribosome binding site mutation

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turns the binding site into a 5 prime untranslated region where the ribosome will not be able to recognize it
-this is outside the coding sequence

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chromosome rearrangement

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-not genetic mutation bc it is not on the coding sequence or
-three types: translocation, deletion and duplication
-this happens to the whole chromosome

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transition

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-a point mutation that can be silence or missence where a purine (two ring A or G) is converted to a pyrimidine (C or T) or vice versa
-change base with a base of similar shape
-a type of nucleotide substitution
-stay on the same road but change lanes
-this will not change the base pair is A becomes T or C becomes G
-the base on the lagging strand will change in response to become a base pair match

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transversion

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-changing a purine (AG) for a purine or a prymidine (CT) for a prymidine
-a type of nucloetide substitution
-this will change the base pair

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what mutation causes sickle cell anemia

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a missense mutation that makes lys become glu

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giesma stain

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stains DNA so you can karyotype it

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nondisjunction

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mispackaging of chromosomes during gamete production
-one gamete will get no chromosomes
-if nondisjunction has a female it will die (XXX)
-XXY can live
-happens in meiosis 1 or 2

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Indel

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can shift frame of coding region messing up the amino acid after it resulting in a truncated protein or missense (useless)
-causes ribosome to make the wrong amino acid because of the frame shift

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what does nondisjunction create?

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aneuploidy= abnormal chromosomes
-monozomic or trisonomic (cause of trisonomy)

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polyploidy

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2 or more complete sets of chromosomes
-this is more likley than aneuploidy
-tri can happen in humans
-tetra can lead to a new species (plants)

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will chromosome rearrangment affect the chromosome number
no
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if female gives an xx egg from nondisjunction what happens when it gets w sperm
if the sperm donates an x the egg dies if a sperm donates a y it can live -females from nondisjunction only survive if the femal gives a 0 egg and the X comes from the sperm
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XO nondisjunction in humans
causes Turner syndrome -sterile
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XXY in human
kleinfel syndrom -sterile
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autosome nondisjunction
-disjunction that does not involve the sex chromosomes -ex: down syndrome from an extra chromosome 21 (47n) -the older the mother the more likely this is because as you age you have less control over meiosis
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change in chromosome banding patterns
-deletion, duplication, inversion and translocation (chromosomal rearrangement so it is a mutation outside of the coding sequence) -these mutations will effect how genes are expressed in the coding sequence)
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deletion
removing a chunk of chromosome
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duplication
duplicating a chunk of chormosome -inversion
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inversion
entire chunk is reversed
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translocation
a chunk is taken from one chromosome to another
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what causes an indel mutation
-looping out of the strand during replication causing polymerase to skip bases on the templet (deletion) -looping out of daughter causes polymerase to put extra base on daughter and when it is elongated it is too long
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substitution is caused by?
DNA pol making a mistake -this may cause a buldge in the backbone bc the bases on the strand don't fit together -this misincorporation can affect and pass on to offspring -can also be caused by base tautomeric forms
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tautomeric forms
same base but different H bond pattern ex: A is normally NH2 but tautomeric will be NH and NH -this changes the acceptor and donator characteristics of the base cause pol to give it the wrong base ex: A prime (tautomeric) will not fit with C and not T= mismatch
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how does dna differentiate btwn daughter and template
template adenine gets methylated before daughter so this lets DNA pol identify daughter and find mistakes in prokaryotes bc they are circular -maybe eukaryotes use the gaps in the daughter strands
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can DNA fix a buldge
yes by activating 3 to 5 exonuclease that will go backward on the strand and fix the mistake
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MUTS
will bind to the mismatch on both strands/ binds to the buldge -has the error and therefore lets pol know the template is the outerstrand
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MUTH and L
bind to the daughter strand -forms tertiary complex with MUTS when the fold over creating a loop
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exonuclease
is the pacman that will chew up the error on the inner daughter strand letting DNA pol remake that chunk fo daughter
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spontaneous deanimation
cytosine becomes uracil because it looses NH2 for an oxygen -this causes an A to go on the opposite lagging strand
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How is spontaneous deanimation corrected
dna glycosidase finds the uracil and removes it by flipping out the DNA and removing it -this leaves an abasic site that can be chewed up by abasic specific endonuclease -pol then makes it again
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base modification chemicals
chance DNA base by giving mutations to daughter ex: nitrous acids in food will turn C to G and G to T
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Hydroxylamine
adds hydroxyl to DNA base to cause misincorporatio -changes C to G on template so the daughter strand gets a C and not a G
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alkanating bases
add alkyl groups to cause misoncorporation
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intercalators
insert intercalates between bases on the DNA which causes a change in shape causes pol to miss bases which leads to indels
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AMES
test to detect mutagens ex: salmonella will not grow without histidine media and rat liver broth w a mutagen. A plate without the mutagen will have minimal growth which proves that the mutagen can grow w out histidine) -point of the test is to look for mutation that increase the cells ability to grow without histidine
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radiation/ x ray
ions causing breaks in the double strand that can also cause translocations to other chromosomes -fix by: non homologous end joining (join broken ends) or homologous recombination (recombine broken chromosome with the other parents non broke chromosome)
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why are some bacteria resistant to radiation
because they have many homologous machinery enzymes to fix breaks
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UV
-nonionizing radiation that doesn't break double strands it just causes covalent dimerization -dimerization changes shape, ridgidity and ability to detect mistakes -fixed by UVr pathway
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how is UV damage fixed
-UVAB finds thiamine dimer _UVRB and UVRC make a complex that cuts the side of the dimer on the defective strand -DNA pol will fill gap -ligase will seal it
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mutates DNA repair enzymes can increase what?
risk of cancer because you cant fix DNA mutations well

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