Pyrimidine -
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One carbon ring
Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil
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Purine -
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Two carbon rings
Adenine, Guanine
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How are nucleotides joined together? -
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Condensation to form phosphodiester bond
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What is the function of mRNA? -
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, Answer☑️
Carries genetic info out of nucleus
Transcript translated to protein
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What is the function of tRNA? -
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Carries aa to ribosome
Anticodon pairs with codon on mRNA strand
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What is the function of rRNA? -
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part of ribosome structure
most abundant RNA
coordinated coupling of tRNA to mRNA codons
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Feedback inhibition -
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Product of pathway is noncompetitive inhibitor
Binds to allosteric site to slow down rxn b/c too much product
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Exonucleases -
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Degrades nucleic acids by removing one terminal nt at a time
Cleaves phosphodiester bond at end of chain
5' --> 3' and 3' --> 5'
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Endonucleases (Prok) -
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Restriction enzymes
Cleaves phoshpodiester bonds w/i poly-nt chain
Recognition site is palindromic sequence
Types I-V
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ORI sites -
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nt sequence where replication is initiated
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Topoisomerase I -
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Induces ss breaks
Remove DNA supercoils during TXN and DNA replication; for strand breakage during recombination;
for chr condensation; and to disentangle intertwined DNA during mitosis
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topoisomerase II -
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cuts both strands of one DNA double helix, passes another unbroken DNA helix through it, and then
reanneals the cut strands
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Gyrase (topoisomerase II) -
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, Unwinds supercoiling caused by unwinding at the rep fork by introducing DSBs
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Helicase -
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Breaks H-bonds of double helix at the replication fork
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Primase -
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DNApol α (DNA dep RNA pol)
adds short segments of complementary
RNA to ssDNA template (primers), serves as starting points for replication
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single-strand DNA binding proteins (SSBPs) -
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Binds ssDNA and prevents it from re-annealing during TXN, replication, repair, and recombination
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Okazaki fragments -
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Short fragments of DNA synthesized by DNApol δ using the lagging strand (3'->5') as a template
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Ligase -
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Closes gaps in DNA
Catalyzes phosphodiester bond between 3'OH and 5'P
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