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Biology
12th Grade
12/11/2008

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Transforming Principle
Definition
Griffith - found that some IIR bacteria had transformed into infectious IIIS cells by interaction with dead IIIS cells
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RNase
Definition
enzyme that degrades RNA
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DNase
Definition
enzyme that degrades DNA
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Lysogenic Cycle
Definition
Virus integrates DNA into genome of host, allowing it to be passed to subsequent progeny cells
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Lytic Cycle
Definition
Virus uses host machinery to produce progeny viruses then lyses the cell, releasing into environment
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Pentose
Definition
5 carbon sugar
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3 parts of nucleotide composition
Definition
pentose, nitrogenous base, phosphate group
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Difference between Deoxyribose and Ribose
Definition
Robose has OH on 2' carbon, Deoxy has H on 2'
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Purines
Definition
2 ring structures, Adenine and Guanine
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Pyrimidines
Definition
One ring, Thymine, cytosine, uracil
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Nucleoside
Definition
Nitrogenous base and Sugar
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Phosphodiester bonds
Definition
bonds between nucleotides
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Antiparallel
Definition
nucleic acid strands oriented in opposite ways
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Complementary base pairing rule
Definition
AT, GC, AU
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Oligomers
Definition
"few bases" short DNA molecules
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A-DNA
Definition
right handed, 10.9 bp per turn, seen in conditions of low humidity
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B-DNA
Definition
right-handed, 10 bp per turn, thin and long.
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Z-DNA
Definition
left handed, 12 bp per turn, not proven to actually exist
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Nucleoid
Definition
area in prokaryotes where the nucleic acid is found
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Topoisomeriase
Definition
enzyme that induces supercoiling
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C Value
Definition
Haploid DNA content measure in bp
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Chromatin
Definition
stainable material within nucleus made of DNA and proteins
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histones
Definition
most abundant proteins in the chromatin. net positive charge which facilitates binding to DNA
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10-nm-chromatin fiber
Definition
"beads on a string"
beads have a 10 nm diameter
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nucleosomes
Definition
basic structural units of eucharyotic chromatin, "beads" of histone and DNA
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30-nm-chromatin fiber
Definition
six nucleosomes per turn
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difference between Euchromatin and heterochromatin
Definition
eu - shows normal condensation and decond during cell cycle, het - usually remains condensed
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unique sequence DNA
Definition
present in one to a few copies in the genome
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moderately repettitive DNA
Definition
present in few to 10^5 copies
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highly repetitive DNA
Definition
present from 10^5 to 10^7 copies
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tandemly repeated DNA
Definition
repeated sequences clustered
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