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These notes are for chapter 6, module 33 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 does go into more detail for the important foundations to biology. Hope they help :)

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During transcription , DNA is used as a template to guide the synthesis of RN

Transcription· Transcription -
process by which RNA is synthesized from a DNA template

similar to DNA
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replication but synthesizes RNA molecule


Template strand unwound DNA strand used as model for Synthesis of RNA transcript
(noncoding antisense, minus
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One ,


strand)
synthesized RNA complementary template (reverse complement)
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is to


synthesized by RNA polymerase enzyme that adds nucleotides to 3 end of growing RNA aka growing transcript
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DNA strand not used as template for transcription =
nontemplate strand (coding , sense, plus strand)
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Transcription =
3 stages :




① Initiation :


-RNA polymerase + proteins bind double-stranded DNA


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DNA strands are separated

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transcription of template begins

② Elongation :

RNA polymerase moves down template nucleotides added to 3' end of transcript
growing RNA
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+ are



③ Termination :

RNA polymerase reaches in template strand that stops transcription releases
sequence transcript
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Promoters's Transcription initiates + terminates at specific points along DNA molecule
Terminators
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Promoters -


regions of a few hundred base pairs where RNA polymerase associated proteins bind
+ to DNA to initiate transcription
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region in double-stranded DNA but only initiates -
on one strand


TATA box-sequence (5'-TATAAA-3') found in many promoters
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Terminators -




sequence on DNA molecule that halts transcription


Different genes in same DNA molecule be transcribed from opposite strands
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can


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No one fixed template strand

depends of promoter
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on orientation of promoter transcription
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begins downstream

Transcription =
regulated process -
under certain conditions




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33 2 RNA .

polymerase adds successive nucleotides to the 3' end of the transcript a

RNA grows in 51-3' direction , moves along template in 31-5' direction

ribonucleotide only accepted pairs properly match
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if base


phosphates released
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uses one phosphate group to provide energy ,
other two



group of growing strand attacks innermost phosphate of
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OH
incoming nucleotide drive rx is released
energy to
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very efficient
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RNA does not proofreading function error rate is much
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polymerase have higher
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Hi there! You will mostly find AP Biology notes here, which go into all the fundamental principles of biology but are specifically aimed at the AP exam. These notes aren’t meant to go super in-depth, and instead just give you the general overview of biology.

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