Molecular Genetics Flashcards

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Purines

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Adenine and guanine, double ringed

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Pyrimidines

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Cytosine and guanine, single ringed

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How can you tell a new strand from the old strand immediately after replication

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Methylation which occurs as DNA ages

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A complete genome is present in every one of your _____ cells

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Autosomal

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4
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What unwinds the helix

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Helicase

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What keeps the strands unwound

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Single strand binding proteins (SSB)

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DNA gyrase

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A topoisomerase which relieves overwound DNA resulting from uncoiling by introducing negative supercoils

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DNA polymerase

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Adds individual nucleotides

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mRNA in eukaryotes is ______, it only translates into one product. In bacteria it is ______.

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Monocistronic, polycistronic

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rRNA

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Plays an important part of ribosomes

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10
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Template strand is

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Antisense

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11
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Promoters

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Specialized regions that signal where to begin transcription

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Termination sequence

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RNA polymerase dissociates

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3 ways of processing

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  1. A 5’ guanosyl cap
  2. A poly-A tail
  3. Introns must be removed
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14
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Processing happens where

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Nucleus

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15
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How many codons can you make with three amino acids

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What role does peptidyl transferase play in protein synthesis

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It catalyses the formation of a peptide bond

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Which stages of protein synthesis require energy?

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Topoisomerase are enzymes involved in

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DNA replication

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In the trp operon

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Transcription is the norm unless a repressor bind

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Which codons, when in the A site, start termination

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Some RNA viruses replicate using what enzyme

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RNA replicase

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Integrase

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Puts DNA copy into the host genome

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Virion

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A new viral particle

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What's it called when a virus leaves via exocytosis
Extrusion
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What is bacteria in the lytic phase called
Virulent
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Plasmids called ____ are capable of integrating into the genome
Episomes
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How many ori do bacteria have
1
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Transformation
Integration of foreign chromosome
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Conjugation
Involves a cytoplasmic bridge from donor male (+) to recipient female (-) made from sex pilli
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Usually the bridge collapses before the full DNA sequence can be moved in conjugation. Cells that have undergone the change are refered to as
Hfr or high frequency of recombination
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Transduction is
The carry over using viruses
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Promoter
Where RNA polymerase binds
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operator consists of
nontranscribable region of DNA that can bind a repressor protein
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what codes a repressor
regulator
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Inducible systems require the presence of a compound known as an ____
Inducer