DNA Replication DNA replication is a biological process that occurs in all living organisms and copies their DNA. The initiation of DNA replication starts with two steps. First an initiator protein unwinds a short stretch of the DNA double helix. Then a protein called helicase attaches to and breaks apart the hydrogen bonds between the bases on the DNA strands‚ pulling apart the two strands. DNA replication starts when one double-stranded DNA molecule produces two identical copies of the molecule
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Chapter 16 Notes: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance Overview: Life’s Operating Instructions In 1953‚ James Watson and Francis Crick introduced an elegant double-helical model for the structure of DNA. DNA‚ the substance of inheritance‚ is the most celebrated molecule of our time. Hereditary information is encoded in DNA and reproduced in all cells of the body. This DNA program directs the development of biochemical‚ anatomical‚ physiological‚ and (to some extent) behavioral traits Early in
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In order for the prolactin single peptide to enter the ER lumen and be cleaved by signal peptidase‚ the prolactin nascent chain must be 130 codons. The mRNA at size 130 codons in length is seen to have cleavage in the presence of microsomes. The shorter sized mRNA’s in the presence of microsomes‚ are the non cleaved residue peptides in which the signal peptidase is unable to cleave the signal sequence amino acid. B. Band B is the cleavage of the signal sequence by the signal peptidase. The cleavage
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DNA polymerase matches complementary nucleotides to the templates; the templates may be properly referred to as the leading strand template and the lagging strand templates Leading strand The leading strand is the template strand of the DNA double helix so that the replication fork moves along it in the 3’ to 5’ direction. This allows the newly synthesized strand complementary to the original strand to be synthesized 5’ to 3’ in the same direction as the movement of the replication fork. On the leading
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The chemistry of life Cell chemistry is hierarchical Inorganic precursors Small organic molecules Macromolecules Supramolecular structures Organelles/structures Cell BIO 1140 – SLIDE 1 Review of macromolecules Carbohydrates Polymers of monosaccharides (polysaccharides) Energy storage Structural chitin starch glycogen Purple pages F23 cellulose BIO 1140 – SLIDE 2 http://www.mpie.de/index.php?id=2957 Monosaccharides CnH2nOn n = 3 to 7 Trioses‚ pentoses and hexoses
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Watson and Crick have been given credit for discovering the three dimensional‚ double helix model of DNA. They got the idea for the double helix shape from a woman named Rosalind Franklin‚ who saw the double helix shape from a picture she took of an x-ray. Frederick Griffith discovered that bacteria can change form and function through transformation. Bacteriophages are a form of a bacterial virus. Viruses act as parasites and can cause many different diseases. Erwin Chargaff figured out that units
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actually be the gene. Usually people thought that the gene would be protein‚ not nucleic acid‚ but by the late 1940s‚ DNA was largely accepted as the genetic molecule. In 1948‚ Linus Pauling discovered that many proteins take the shape of an alpha helix‚ spiraled like a spring coil. In 1950‚ Erwin Chargaff found that the arrangement of nitrogen bases in DNA varied widely‚ but the amount of certain bases always occurred in a one-to-one ratio. In the early 1950s‚ there was a race to discover DNA among
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then click Submit Answers for Grading. Next‚ click on the Chapter Guide in the left hand blue column and complete the following seven activities. 1. Activity: The Hershey-Chase Experiment. 2. Activity: DNA and RNA Structure. 3. Activity: DNA Double Helix. 4. Activity: DNA Replication: An Overview. 5. Activity: DNA Replication: A Closer Look. 6. Activity: DNA Replication Review. 7. Activity: DNA Packing Go to Concept 16.2 and study the Investigation: What is the Correct Model for DNA Replication? Note:
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Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins Rotation around the -Carbon in a Polypeptide A Sterically Nonallowed Conformation The Helix and Pleated Sheet Conformationally allowable structures where backbone is optimally Hbonded (linear Hbonds). Helix (3.613 Helix): •3.6 residues/turn •Rise = 0.15 nm/ residue •13-atom hydrogenbonded loop Linus Pauling and Robert Corey‚ 1950 Pleated Sheet: •Anti-parallel or parallel •2.0 residues/”turn” •0.34 nm/residue (anti-parallel) or 0.32 nm/residue
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