Midterm 1 Flashcards
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A cell is…
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- The vehicle for hereditary information
- Includes the machinery to gather its own raw materials
- Has the ability to replicate and pass on its genetic material
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Z.Janssen and H.Janssen (1590)
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1st compound microscope
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Robert Hooke (1665)
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- Described chambers in cork
- Coined the term cell
- Wrote Micrographia
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Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek (1673)
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Made his own microscopes (300x)
First to observe and describe living cells
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Schwann and Schleiden’s Cell Doctrine
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- All life forms are made from one or more cells
2. Cell is the basic unit of structure for all organisms
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Virchow’s addition to the cell doctrine
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- All cells arise ONLY from pre-existing cells
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Spontaneous generation
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The theory that living material can spontaneously arise from non-living material
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Francesco Redi (1625-1697)
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- Performed experiments that proved that maggots do not spontaneously arise from meat
- 1 jar w/ just meat, 1 jar covered in gauze, 1 jar covered in paper
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John Needham (1713-1781)
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- Boiled mutton to remove microbes, put it in a flask, let the flask cool, and stoppered it.
- There was bacterial growth in the flask
- Problem: Microbes entered before the flask was stoppered
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Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1781)
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- Same experiment as Needham, but he stoppered the flasks before boiling.
- There was no growth **
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1885)
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- Elongated the neck of the flask of one, but not of the other. The elongated flask had no growth, but the other one did.
- Rabies vaccine, Pasteurization
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Acellular
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Exceptions to the typical cell definition
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Acellular: Eg. Viruses
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- Can’t harvest their own nutrients
- Can’t reproduce on their own
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Acellular: Eg. Liposomes
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- Don’t divide
- Created artificially
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1/10 cell features
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All cells store their hereditary information in the same linear chemical code (DNA)
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2/10 cell features
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All cells replicate their hereditary information by templated polymerization (semi-conservative replication)
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3/10 cell features
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All cells transcribe portions of their hereditary information into the same intermediary information (RNA)
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4/10 cell features
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All cells use proteins as catalysts
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5/10 cell features
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All cells translate RNA into proteins in the same way
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6/10 cell features
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The fragments of genetic information corresponding to one proteins is one gene
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7/10 cell features
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Life requires free energy
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8/10 cell features
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All cells function as biochemical factories dealing with the same basic molecular building blocks
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9/10 cell features
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All cells are enclosed in a plasma membrane across which nutrients and waste materials must pass
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10/10 cell features
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A living cell CAN exist with fewer than 500 genes
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Limit of resolution for a light microscope
200nm
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Resolution =
0.61(wavelength) / NA (nsinø)
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EMR wavelength =
0.004nm
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Why do we use light with shorter wavelength?
Because we are more likely to see every detail
| -Skipping rope example
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Brightfield
See almost nothing b/c light passes through the sample
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Brightfield (stained)
Increase contrast by staining
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Fluorescence
Shows specific molecules. Fluorescent substances absorb UV radiation and emit light.
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Phase contrast
Increase contrast by amplifying variations in refractive index
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Differential interference contrast
Uses optical mods to amplify variations in refractive index
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Confocal
Uses lasers and optics to focus a beam of light on one part of a specimen
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Fluorescent microscopy
- Absorbs light at a low wavelength
- Emits light at a high wavelength
- Dichromic mirror: Below certain wavelength, mirror reflects light
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Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
Can be inserted into a reporter gene or made into a fusion protein
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Gene regulation
Determine which cells make what proteins
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3 domains of life
Archaea
Bacteria
Eukaryotes
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Why are cells so small?
To increase their Surface Area : Volume ratio
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Unicellular
"One celled" organisms
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Multicellular
Have different types of cells for different functions
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Eukaryotic cells
- Compartmentalized for organization and transport
| - These compartments are called organelles
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Mass culture
Large population of cells
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Clonal culture
Genetically identical- Have a known genetic lineage
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Axemic culture
Only one species grown
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Cells are grown in 3 ways:
- Suspended in a liquid
- Suspended in a semi-solid (Ex: <0.5% agar)
- Plated on a semi-solid (Ex: 1-2% agar)
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Anchorage dependent
Normal cells
| -Requires attachment to extracellular matrix material
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Growth factor dependent
Normal cells
| -Signals telling it when to grow or die etc.
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Contact inhibited
Normal cells
- Stop dividing because of growth factor
- Form monolayer at confluence
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Have a finite lifespan
Normal cells
| -Divide to their Hayflick limit
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Anchorage independent
Transformed cells
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Growth factor independent
Transformed cells
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Not contact inhibited
Transformed cells
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Can grow indefinitely
Transformed cells (Ex: Cancer cells)
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Eagle's Basal Medium
Widely used synthetic basal medium for growing cells
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Amino acids and Vitamins in the medium
Cofactors for enzymes
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Salts
Maintain osmolarity
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Glucose
Food source
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Penecillin and Streptoman
Kill bacteria
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Phenol red
pH mediator
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Step 1 of culture
- Use whole organism or obtain tissue
| - Requires dissection, vivisection, or euthanasia
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Step 2 of culture
Disaggregate the sample into single cells
- Mechanical disruption: blender or homogenizer
- Enzymatic disruption: proteases like trypsin
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Step 3 of culture
Place cells in a suitable environment
- Eagle's Basal medium or equivalent
- Key factors: Water, Temp, Aeration, Nutrients
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First Human Cell Culture
- George Gey
- Small biopsy of cervical tumour
- Culture grew and grew and grew
- Called them HeLa cells (after Henrietta Lacks)
- HeLa cells are immortal, can grow easily, and do not always behave expectedly
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Cryobiology
Studies the effects of low temperatures on organisms or the use of cryopreservation
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Advantages of cryopreservation
- Biological backups: Cells of interest always available
- Repetitions of the same experiment
- "Suspended animation"- Stops biological time
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Disadvantages of cryopreservation
- Some loss of viability in thawing
- Cryoprotectants required b/c of slow rate of freezing
- Some cryoprotectants are dangerous to handle
- Always side effects on the cells
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Polge, Smith, and Parkes (1949)
- Initial discovery of cryopreservation
| - Used chicken spermatozoa with glycerol as the protectant
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Covalent bonds
- Shared electron pairs- Strongest bonds
| - Ex: Backbones of polymers, DNA, RNA
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Electrostatic bonds
- Charge to Charge interactions
| - Strength depends on nature of charges, distance between them, and dielectric constant (what's between them)
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Hydrogen bonds
- Strong bonds that are essential for life
| - Ex: Water, Base pair bonding in DNA
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Van der Waal's interactions
- Close together, then things repel
- Far away, then things attract
- At the Van der Waal's contact distance, experience these interactions
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Water
- Hydrogen bonding
- Electrostatic interactions with ionic solutes
- Polar molecule
- Interacts favourably with other polar molecules (Hydrophilic)
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Proteins (general)
- Most versatile macromolecules (many functions)
| - Catalyze reactions, Motility, Transport, Signalling, Hormonal, Defense
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Conformation
Spatial arrangement of atoms in a protein
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Native state
Lowest energy state of a protein
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Dalton (unit of mass)
g/mol
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R-groups
Amino acid side chain
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Amino acids
- Properties are determined by the R-group
| - L-isomer is only form found in proteins by ribosomes
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Absolute configuration
L or D (left and right) isomers
- H interchanges with an NH3 group
- Aldehyde group interchanges with Carboxyl
- BUT R group NEVER changes
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Non-polar amino acids
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Glycine
Alanine
Valine
Leucine
Isoleucine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Tryptophan
Proline
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Polar uncharged amino acids
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Serine
Threonine
Cysteine
Tyrosine
Asparagine
Glutamine
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Polar charged amino acids
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Aspartate
Glutamate
Lysine
Arginine
Hystidine
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Peptide bonds (general)
Amino acids covalently linked with peptide bonds
| -Amino acid terminus (N-term) and Carboxyl (C-term)
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Primary structure (1°)
- Includes all covalent bonds and is defined by the amino acid sequence
- The linear sequence of amino acids in a protein
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Secondary structure (2°)
- Regular repeating structure adopted by a polypeptide
- Arranged in motifs (supersecondary structure)
- Ex: Helices
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Tertiary structure (3°)
- How everything is arranged in a single protein
| - Weaker bonds
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Quaternary structure (4°)
-How everything is arranged in a multiple protein
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Ribonuclease experiment
-Showed that amino acid sequence contains all info needed to fold chain into the correct 3D structure
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Nucleic acids
- Information storage
- DNA (hereditary information)
- Carriers of chemical energy (NADH, ATP, NADPH)
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Central dogma of micro
DNA --> RNA --> Protein
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Nucleic acid composition
- Nitrogenous base
- A pentose sugar
- 1 or more phosphate groups
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Why are nucleosides not nucleotides?
Nucleosides lack the phosphate group
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Polynucleotides
- Many nucleotides linked by phosphodiester bonds
| - Can be single (ssDNA) or double (dsDNA) stranded
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Purines- Nucleic acids
Adenine
| Guanine
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Pyrimidines- Nucleic acids
Thymine
Cytosine
Uracil
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B-DNA structure (normal DNA structure)
- Double, right-handed helix
- 2 anti-parallel strands
- Bases inside
- Phosphodiester bonds outside
- Hydrogen bonded
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B-DNA characteristics
- Negative charge b/c of phosphate groups
- Not completely stable
- Proteins can interact w/ bases in grooves
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Chargaff
Discovered that amount of A=T, and C=G
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Watson-Crick base pairing
- H-bonds form between G-C and A-T (or U)
| - Also called canonical base pairing
