BIOLOGY 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Okazaki Fragments, Prestressed Concrete, Proofreading

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Ea(cid:272)h dna strand has an un(cid:271)onded 5" (cid:272)ar(cid:271)on at one end and an un(cid:271)ounded 3" carbon at the other. Dna synthesis o(cid:272)(cid:272)urs in the 5" to 3" dire(cid:272)tion. A free 3" oh is required for the addition of new nucleotides. Only one of the new dna strands can be assembled in a single piece- the other forms in short segments called okazaki fragments. A dna molecule is not always replicated correctly- luckily, dna polymerases proofread their own work. Dna repair mechanism correct mismatched by reversing the synthesis reaction to remove a mismatched nucleotide, then resuming synthesis in the forward direction. When proofreading and repair mechanisms fail, an error becomes a mutation. Produces an rna copy or transcript of a gene. Structural genes produce mrna that specifies the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. Process of synthesizing a specific polypeptide on a ribosome.

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