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DNA - ____
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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Chromosomes are an assembly of both ____ and ____
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DNA
protein |
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____ - conducted early experiment with mice and two bacterial strains, one benign and one virulent.
His results showed that some material was being passed from one organism to another. |
Frederick Griffith
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____ - gave benign strain, gave killed viral strain separately no dead mice.
He then gave combination of benign strain and killed viral strain and then dead mice. |
Griffith
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___, ____, ____ later confirmed it was DNA.
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Avery
Macleod McCarty |
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___ and ____ use a DNA virus, (which is essential a protein container with dna inside of it)
Radiotagged stuff, figured out that is was the Dna that was heritable, the stuff being passed from one organism to another. |
Hershey
Chase |
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Structural levels of a eukaryotic chromosome:
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1. Nucleotides
2. Linked by phosphodiester bonds 3. Double helix 4. Dna, proteins form chromosomes 5. Genome |
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___ - single ring, thymine and cytosine
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Pyrimidines
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___ - double ring, Adenine and Guanine
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Purines
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In ___ Thymine is replaced by uracil.
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RNA
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Carbons identified by position in the deoxyribose ring. 5' and 3' carbons form covalent linkages Strand possesses a sugar-phosphate "backbone" Sequence of bases. |
DNA strand, structure and directionality -
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Key features of how the DNA strand comes together -
Two strands of DNA form a ____ The bases in opposite strands hydrogen-bond according to the TA/GC rule. The 2 strands are ____. There are approx. ____ nucleotides in each strand per complete turn of the helix. |
double helix
antiparallel 10 |
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Analyzed base composition (Chargaff's rule) TA and GC amounts will always match |
Erwin Chargaff
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Used x-ray crystallography to visualize DNA. |
Rosalind Franklin
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____ combined data from chargaff and franklin and worked out the structural framework.
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Watson and Crick
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___ and ____ experiments with radio labeled DNA confirmed that DNA replication is semiconservative.
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Meselson
Stahl's |
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DNA replication is ____
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semiconservative
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DNA strand are ____.
As strands separate each is called the ____ strand New ____ align with parent strand to form daughter strand. Result is two ____ with same base sequence as original. |
antiparallel
parent nucleotides double helices |
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Circular bacterial chromosomes have a single start point (the origin) for ____.
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replication
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___ replication originates at many locations along the linear chromosomes.
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Eukaryote
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Two replication ____ are formed.
____ is arranged 3' to 5', so replication can begin immediately. ____ synthesis occurs in fragments (Okazaki fragments) |
forks
Leading strand Lagging strand |
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Replication always proceeds in ____ to ____ direction.
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5'
3' |
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____ facilitate formation of replication fork, maintain separation of two strands.
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Proteins
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DNA ____ provides an RNA ____ so that DNA polymerase can begin replication.
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primase
primer |
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____ can only link nucleotides in the 5' to 3' direction.
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DNA polymerase
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DNA polymerase is able to covalently link nucleotides together from a ____.
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primer
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DNA primase makes ____ to being the replication process.
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RNA primers
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____ makes DNA from the RNA primers. ____ hops back to the opening of the fork and makes a second RNA primer for the lagging strand.
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DNA polymerase
DNA primase |
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____ continues to elongate the leading strand. In the lagging strand, ____ synthesizes DNA from the second primer, and also removes the first primer and replaces it with DNA.
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DNA polymerase
DNA polymerase |
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In the lagging strand, DNA ligase forms a covalent bond between the first and second ____. A third ____ is made. The leading strand continues to elongate.
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okazaki fragments
okazaki fragment |
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____ - long repeat sequence caps on the end of the chromosomes.
This is a protective feature. |
Telomeres
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____ - long sections of dna that area repeats, that "cap" the dna, they allow the chromosomes to get shorter and shorter and not impact the important information that is residing in the chromosomes.
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Telomeres
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When they use ____ cells to clone, they end up with ____ animals, even if they are newborn. They have ___ cells.
Ex. Dolly |
older
older old |
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Dna polymerase can only replicate from an existing strand.
Without ____, chromosomes would get shorter and shorter each time they replicated, eventually would start "chopping" up genes |
Telomeres
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Telomeres - protect the end of the ____.
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chromosomes
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____- a multienzmye/protein complex that makes these caps, it makes the telomeres on the end of the linear chromosomes.
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Telomerase
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____ serves as the template, to serve as the telomere caps at the end of the chromosomes.
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RNA
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____ assembles telomeres.
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Telomerase
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The telomere protects the ends of ____ from shortening.
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chromosomes
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Telomerase is composed of both ____ and ____.
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protein
RNA |
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Older cells possess ____, limiting the number of divisions remaining.
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shorter telomeres
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____ - smooths out the DNA, prevents it from supercoiling
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Topoisomerase
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____ - unzips the DNA
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Helicase
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Helicase - unzips the DNA so dna polymerase and other enzymes can have acccess to single strands of DNA.
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Helicase
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____ - stabilize the single strands of dna, while waiting for other stuff to get going.
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Single stranded binding proteins
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____ - lays down a primer of RNA
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DNA primase
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____ attaches and begins to assemble based on the parent strand.
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DNA polymerase
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____ - "chunks" okazaki fragments, these are in the lagging strand,
Polymerase cannot attach these fragments, need ligase to do this. |
DNA ligase
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DNA polymerase needs to lay down from ____ to ____. (nucleotide strand)
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5 prime
3 prime |
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____ - mistake that goes unnoticed.
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Mutation
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____ - one circular strand and 1 origin of replication.
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Prokaryotes
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____ - linear chromosomes, billions of base pairs, multiple origins of replication.
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Eukaryotes
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____ - Enzyme that assembles the daughter strand of DNA from the parent strand template
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DNA Polymerase
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____ - Alleviates coiling by Helicase as the DNA strand is unwound
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Topoisomerase
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____ - Sections of DNA assembled on the lagging strand
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Okazaki fragments
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____ - Proteins that bind to single stranded DNA and stabilize it.
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Single Stranded Binding Proteins
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____ - Attaches Okazaki fragments
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DNA Ligase
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____ - Enzyme that assembles the RNA primer
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DNA Primase
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During which of the following phases of meiosis are cells haploid? ____
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Metaphase II
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Griffith's work with mice and bacteria showed that DNA was the heritable material? ___
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False
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Which of the following are general features of a DNA molecule?
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Phosphate
Deoxyribose Nitrogenous base |
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____ are a lot of nonsense, they are a protective cap.
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Telomeres
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____ is an enzyme that during replication assembles the telomere cap.
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Telomerase
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The ____ protects the chromosome from eventually cutting into the meat of the chromosome.
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telomere cap
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The way replication works in linear chromosomes, during each successive replication it gets ____ successively shorter.
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cut
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____ is 3 to 5 (the parent), because you have to lay new one 5 to 3.
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Leading strand
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____ get assembled continuously and
The ____ is assembled in sections. The sections are called ____. |
Leading strand
Lagging strand okazaki fragments |