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Pyrimidine -
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One carbon ring
Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil
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What is the function of mRNA? -
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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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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
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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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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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Telomeres -
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Repeat sequence (TTAGGG) at the ends of chr, protect chr from degradation
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RNA polymerase -
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DNA dependent RNApol
Transcribes DNA template to RNA (3'-->5'; anti-parallel)
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Splicesomes -
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Complex of snRNPs
Removes introns from pre-mRNA and splices exons together
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Enhancers -
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Short regions of DNA that bind proteins (TXN factors) that enhance TXN of a gene
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Reverse transcriptase -
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enzyme that transcribes RNA to cDNA (lacks introns)
RNA --> RNA:DNA --> cDNA (dsDNA)
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Open Reading Frame (ORF) -
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sections of DNA that begin with start codons and end with stop codons
DNA: 5' --> 3'
transcription: 3' --> 5' DNA --> RNA (promoter)