Molecular Genetics Flashcards
(36 cards)
Purines
Adenine and guanine, double ringed
Pyrimidines
Cytosine and guanine, single ringed
How can you tell a new strand from the old strand immediately after replication
Methylation which occurs as DNA ages
A complete genome is present in every one of your _____ cells
Autosomal
What unwinds the helix
Helicase
What keeps the strands unwound
Single strand binding proteins (SSB)
DNA gyrase
A topoisomerase which relieves overwound DNA resulting from uncoiling by introducing negative supercoils
DNA polymerase
Adds individual nucleotides
mRNA in eukaryotes is ______, it only translates into one product. In bacteria it is ______.
Monocistronic, polycistronic
rRNA
Plays an important part of ribosomes
Template strand is
Antisense
Promoters
Specialized regions that signal where to begin transcription
Termination sequence
RNA polymerase dissociates
3 ways of processing
- A 5’ guanosyl cap
- A poly-A tail
- Introns must be removed
Processing happens where
Nucleus
How many codons can you make with three amino acids
64
What role does peptidyl transferase play in protein synthesis
It catalyses the formation of a peptide bond
Which stages of protein synthesis require energy?
All of them
Topoisomerase are enzymes involved in
DNA replication
In the trp operon
Transcription is the norm unless a repressor bind
Which codons, when in the A site, start termination
UGA UAA UAG
Some RNA viruses replicate using what enzyme
RNA replicase
Integrase
Puts DNA copy into the host genome
Virion
A new viral particle