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These notes are for Chapter 6, Module 31 of the “Biology for the AP Course” 1st edition textbook by James Morris, Domenic Castignetti, John Lepri and Rick Relyea. These are aimed at first- or second-year bio students in high school and Intro to Bio college courses. They are pretty surface-level but covers pretty much all the fundamental ideas and topics about DNA and RNA structure. Hope they help :)

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UNIT6 :
GENE EXPRESSION : REGULATION

cells Store info in DNA's nucleotide sequence
↳ transmitted via cell division




31 1 Nucleic Acids encode
.

genetic information in their nucleotide sequence

·

2 types of nucleic acids :
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) RNA (ribonucleic acid),




o
RNA key role in protein synthesis pyrimidine bases
regulating gene expression
= :
+




NHz
·
covalently bonded nucleotide chain

·


Nucleotide made up of : 5C sugar,
3 either
nitrogenous
deoxyribose
base, + phosphate group
or ribose
No cytosine (C

0-


--p-0-CH0 MyCONH
(AGvore
Base nucleotides connected via phosphodiester bonds
·



-
thymineThe
I
H

when phosphate group of nucleotide is covalently I


phosphate
of o bonded to sugar unit of another nucleotide




unc
group
Ribose sugar to form sugar-phosphate backbone


0 DNA long double-stranded helix
·
=




-O-P-0-CHe Base (A G T orD) pairs
"complementary purine bases :
I
O pairing between
, ,
base

I
↑ -↑
C C
purines pyrimidines (A-T G C) for DNA Ni
I
-
+


,




phosphate
oit
C

it
>
-
A-T has 2 H-bonds, G-c has 30G-C is
stronger Fr guanine (G)
group


NN
·
RNA complementary base pairs is A-U , G C
-




Deoxyribose sugar DNA doesn't have any restriction adenine
·


on nucleotide


sequence
>
-
near infinite combinations



31 2 Genetic information
.
typically flows from DNA to RNA to protein


I
DNA Parent DNA's helix "unzips" as H-bonds are broken , two
·




·Taughtends
Replication
original strands =
templates for new daughter strands

Information· DNA's info determines protein's shape = function
Flow
Transcription
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the process by which RNA is synthesized from DNA




#
copied in "same language"
·
>
-
nucleotides

·

Translation -
the process by which a protein is synthesized from DNA


changing "languages" nucleotides that make up nucleic acids - amino acids that make up proteins
·
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central dogma =
basic flow of info in all DNA- > RNA >
- proteins
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