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FamousScientists-Belowisalistofscientistswelearnedaboutthischapter.Giveabriefexplanationoftheirexperimentorwhattheydidforgeneticresearch.RosalindFranklinWatsonandCrickFredrickGriffithIrwinChargraffMarthaHersheyandAlfredChaseMesselsonandStahlAvery,MacLeodandMcCarthyBrieflydescribeconjugation,transformationandtransductioninbacteria.Whatistheultimategoalofallthreeofthem?
Howdidyouusetransformationinthelab?Howarethebacteriadifferent?Howwilltheylookonanutrientagarplate?AgarAgarwithampicillinAgarwithkanamycinEcoliEcoliw/amprEcoliw/kamrWhyisthefirstcolumnnotausefulcomparison?DNAandDNAReplicationListthebasicpartsofanucleotide.Howcanyoutellthe5’and3’endsofaDNAstrand?
HowisDNAdifferentfromRNA?WhatdeterminesthefactthatDNAhasanoverallnegativecharge?HowdoesgelelectrophoresisworkandwhatisneededtobreakuptheDNAintofragments?WhendoesacellreplicateitsDNA?WheredothenucleotidescomefromthatwillultimatelyformthenewDNAstrandcomefrom?Isitpossiblethenewnucleotideswillshowupineachofthenewstrands?Explain.Howaretheleadingandlaggingstrandsdifferent?
CompletelydescribeDNAreplication.Besuretoincludewordslike:DNAPolymeraseIII,RNAPrimase,RNAPrimer,DNAPolymeraseI,OkasakiFragments,Nucleotides,Helicase,Topoisomerase,HydrogenBonds,Antiparallel,Semi-conservativeandDNALigase.WhatcanbesaidabouteachnewDNAmolecule?HowcanthePolymeraseChainReaction(PCR)beusedtospeedthisprocessup(replication)?
HowdoesPCRworkifyouonlystartwithasmallsampleofDNA?ProteinSynthesisWhatistheprocessoftranscription?Wheredoesitoccurandwhatenzymeisnecessary?Howistranscriptioninprokaryotesandeukaryotesdifferent?HowisthemRNAcopied?Whatisthedifferencebetweenthecodingandtemplatestrand?WhichonedoestheRNApolymerasebindto?
WhatispremRNA?Whyisitabitofahassleineukaryotes?Whatisthedifferencebetweenanintronandanexonandwhatistheenzymecalledthatcutsouttheunwantedportions?
HowelseismRNAprocessedbeforeitleavesthenucleus?IftheDNAisTACCCACACTTTmRNA_______________________________AminoAcids_______________________________Whatistranslation?TypesofMutationsNonsenseMissenseSilentDeletion/Insertion/Frameshift
GeneExpressioninProkaryotesOperons Inducible-Therepressorproteinthatismadebytheregulatorygeneisintheoperator.TheRNApolymerasecannotpassandthegenesarenotcodedfor.If
asubstanceistherethatneedstogetbrokendown(ex-lactosesothebacteriacangetthemuchneededglucose),themoleculewillfitintotherepressorproteinandalteritallostericallyandultimatelyremoveit,allowingtheRNApolymerasetotranscribethemRNAandcodeforthegenetobreakdownthegivenmolecule.
Inthisexamplealloftheenzymescodedforintheoperonwillallowlactosetobebrokendownandthebacteriacellcanusetheglucose.
Repressible-TherepressorproteinthatismadebytheregulatorygeneisNOTinthe
operator.TheRNApolymerasecanpassandthegenesarecodedfor.Thiswillcontinuebecausethecellismakingenzymesthathelpitbuildspecificmolecules(tryptophanissynthesizedinthetrpoperon).Oncethecellhasmadeenoughofthedesiredmolecule,theextrawillfitintotherepressorproteinandalteritallosterically.ThischangewillallowtherepressorproteintofitintotheoperatorandtheRNApolymerasewillnolongerbeabletotranscribethemRNAandcodeforthosespecificenzymes.
TherepressorproteinisNOTintheoperatorsotheRNApolymerasecantranscribethegenes.Onceenoughofasubstance(trp)ispresent,therepressorproteinisalteredsoitFITSintotheoperatorandblocksthetranscription.
GeneExpressioninEukaryotesHowisDNAcondensed?Howdoesgeneregulationleadtodifferentiation?HowdomethylationandacetylationaffectthecondensationofDNA?Whathappenswhenthecelldoesnotneedtheextraproteins/enzymesithas?Namethetwostepsthatarenecessary.