BIOL 1840U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Dna Mismatch Repair, Dna Replication

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Dna: nucleotide polymers arranged as a double helix: Watson and crick discovered that dna was a double helix. There are two strands of nucleotides in dna. Held together by base paring (hydrogen bonds between bases) Adenine pairs with thymine, and cytosine pairs with guanine. Differences in dna sequence lead to genetic variation. Dna is the genetic code that makes us unique: The different arrangements of a,c,g and t lead to different gene sequences. Also similar genes may differ between humans and other organisms. This is the basis of forensic identification using dna. The enzyme adds the nucleotides using the sequence of the parent strand. You then end up with a new strand attached to the old. Dna replication has an error rate of about one in 10,000 nucleotides. Proofreading by polymerase reduce the error rate to one in 10 million nucleotides. If this doesn"t work a mismatch error occurs.

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