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59 Cards in this Set
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Multiple sites where DNA replication is initiated |
Replicon |
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Histone production occurs in |
G1 |
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Catalyze the synthesis of DNA by adding nucletodies |
DNA polymerase |
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Okazaki fragments connected by |
DNA ligases |
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Proofreading mechanism performed by _____ that is part of the ______ |
3-5 exonuclease activity, DNA polymerase |
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Unwinding DS-DNA requires _________ which form a __________ |
1) helicases, topoisomerases, and SSBP 2) replisome |
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A special DNA polymerase that adds copies of 5'-TTAGGG-3' to the ends of chromosomes |
Telomerase |
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Spontaneous hydrolysis of DNA results in: |
depurination and deamination |
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Mutagenic chemicals include: |
Base analogues, base modifying agents and intercalating agents |
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_________ removes abnormal nucleotides to correct mutations |
Excision repair mechanisms |
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Pyrimidine dimers and other bulky lesions are removed through |
Nucletoide excision repair |
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__________ corrects mutations of non-complementary bases that become included in DNA during replication that are not fixed by proof-reading |
Mismatch repair |
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____ and _______ occur during M-phase |
Cell division and cytokinesis |
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The process of mitosis divided into : |
Prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase |
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The centrosomes begin to assemble the microtubule containing structure _____ during the _____ stage of mitosis |
mitotic spindle, prophase |
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In animal cells, __________ are located at core of the centrosomes |
centrioles |
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As ________ disappears, the _________ microtubules make contact with the centromeres to form the _________. During _________ of mitotic division. |
nuclear membrane, mitotic spindle, kinetochore, prometaphase |
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The ______ Bind the free ends of the mitotic spindle microtubules to attach chromosomes to the mitotic spindle. |
kinetochore |
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Mitotic spindle microtubules can attach to: |
kinetochore MTs, MTs from the other pole, and to proteins of the inner plasma membrane. |
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In ___________ the chromosomes are pulled by the centromeres towards the poles as the kinetochore MTs shorten |
Anaphase A |
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In ___________ the poles push apart due to the polar MTs getting longer |
anaphase B
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During Telophase the chromosomes revert to ______. Nucleoli reform, the ______ dissasembles and the ____________ reappears. |
chromatin, spindle and nuclear envelope. |
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The ______ subunits have polarity and assembly of the mitotic spindle occurs with the ______ end at the centrosome and the ____ end growing out. |
tubulin, negative, positive |
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Mitotic spindle MTs are dynamic structures that are continually growing and shrinking by loss/addition of ________ subunits. |
Tubulin
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With the dissolution of ____________ the plus ends of the mitotic spindle MTs make contact with the ________________ |
nuclear membrane, kinetochores |
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____________ divides the _________________ after the chromosomes have been sorted to complete the process of _________. |
Cytokinesis, cytoplasm, cell division |
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Cytokinesis in animals depends on formation of the ____________ |
cleavage furrow |
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Cytokinesis in plant cells produce a ________ between separated daughter nuclei |
cell plate |
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The cell plate is formed by materials such as ______ and ______ derived from _______ from the ________ |
polysaccharides, glycoproteins, vesicles , golgi |
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The timing differences of the cell cycle are primarily in the _____ phase, which may become long, as in the ____ phase. |
G1 , G0 |
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The _______________ determines if a cell is ready to progress to the next stage |
cell cycle checkpoints |
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Late in the ____ phase, the _____ checkpoint determines if a cell will enter the S-phase. Also called the __________ |
G1, G1, restriction checkpoint |
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The _____ checkpoint determines if cell enters the ______ phase, requires completion of DNA syntesis. |
G2, M
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The _____________ checkpoint occurs between the _________ and __________ to ensure the proper attachment of chromosomes to the _____________ |
Spindle assembly, metaphase and anaphase, spindle apparatus |
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S+G1 |
G1 enters S-phase |
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S+G2 |
G2 nucleus does not enter S-phase before mitosis |
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M+G1,G2, or S |
non-M phase nucleus enters M phase even if DNa is not duplicated |
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Until hormonal stimulation, frog oocyte arrested at ____. With hormonal stimulation, oocyte arrested at ______ until fertilization |
G2, metaphase II of mitosis. |
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____________ moves cells through the G2 checkpoint |
Mitosis-promoting factor / Maturation promoting factor |
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Active MPFs stimulate |
breakdown of nuclear envelope, chromosome condensation, degradation of proteins and MS formation |
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Major target of G1 CDK-cyclin complex is ________ that becomes _____________ and this ________ the transcription factor E2F. |
retinoblastoma protein, phosphorylated, activated. |
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During Mphase, Rb protein is _____________ and therefore E2F is ______________ |
dephosphorylated, inhibited.
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The cell cycle is regulated by ____________ by _____________________ |
cell cycle checkpoints, Cyclin-CDK complexes |
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Mitotis is essential for asexual reproduction including: |
-Mitotic division of unicellular organism -Budding of offspring from parent organism -Regeneration from pieces of a parent organism |
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Meiosis I produces ________ cells with chrosomes in form of __________ |
two haploid, two sister chromatids |
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The ___________ stage of Meiosis __ is where homologous chromosomes pair up and exchange DNA known as _______________ |
Prophase I, genetic recombination |
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Five stages of prophase I |
Leptotene, Zygotene, Pachytene, Diplotene, Diakinesis |
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What do the 5 stages involve |
L: begin to condense Z: become closely paired P: crossing over D: separate but attached at chiasmata D: condense and separate, attached at terminal chiasmata |
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Homologous chromosomes held together during __________ by ____________ |
synapsis, sypnaptonemal complex
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Sperm and ova generated by two processes |
meiosis, specialized cell differentiation |
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Spermatogenesis converts __________ into (#) of _______________ |
spermatocyte into 4 spermatids |
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Alleles of each gene separate from each other in gamete formation |
Law of segregation
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Alleles of each gene separate independently of other genes |
Law of independent assortment |
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________ based upon the measurement of recombination frequencies is used to map gene locations. |
Genetic mapping |
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Five examples of genetic exchange between homologous chromosomes involving recombination: |
prophase I of meiosis, coinfection of bacteria with related bacteriophages, transformation of bacteria, transduction of bacteria, bacterial conjugation. |
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Steps of Holliday Model of Homologous Recombination |
1)DS-DNA nicked 2)SS-DNA invades 3)DNA repair of DS-DNA using SS-DNA template 4)Reciprocal Invasion forms Holliday Junction 5) Branch migration 6) Resolution resulting in crossing over events or gene conversion |
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Recombinant DNA molecules produced by: |
1)Cleaving DNA molecules from two sources with restriction endonucleases 2)Mixing the fragments to allow fragment ends to interact 3)linking fragments DNA ligase |
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Cloning of DNA fragments involves: |
1)insertion of DNA into a vector 2)introduction of recombinant vectors in cells 3)amplification " " 4)selection of cells carrying recombinant vector 5)identification of correct recombinant clone |
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To examine expressed genes of an organism, RNA can be converted to ________ through the use of _______________ |
complementary DNA (cDNA), reverse transcriptase |