BIOL 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Nuclear Membrane, Polyadenylation, Intron

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31 Oct 2016

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University of Virginia

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Biology

Course

BIOL 2100

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Kittlesen, David

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Only some genes are being expressed at any moment. Dna replication and transcription are both nucleic acid synthesis. Synthesizing dna requires a dna polymerase and primers made by rna polymerases. Both strands of dna act as templates along the entire length. Synthesizing rna requires just an rna polymerase. Only certain regions of the chromosome are being copied. Only 1 of the 2 strands is being transcribed in these regions. Determine where polymerase will bind and start transcription. Some promoters have similar portions of sequences across species. Transcription and translation occur simultaneously in prokaryotes because there is no nuclear envelope separating the processes mrna processing. These additions: increase the stability of the rna. Assist in export from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. 5,000/250,000 are exons in the primary transcript. 98% of the primary transcript are introns that get cut out and thrown away. Introns are not reflected in the final rna or protein sequence. Significance: one gene can produce multiple polypeptides.

Related Questions

Which of the following statements is true?

A.) Molecules of mRNA are translated from 3' to 5'

B.) For each amino acid found naturally in proteins, there is only one codon in the genetic code.

C.)The Shine-Dalgarno sequence is found in the promoters of genes in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.

D.) During translation, both strands of DNA are used as templates for the construction of two new strands of protein.

E.) When considering the initiation of transcription one often finds consensus sequences, such as the TATA box, located in the region of the DNA where RNA polymerase(s) bind.

BIOCHEM QUESTIONS:

Question 1) (1.5 points) True or false: The initial native DNA is usually in an overwound state, making the initial strand separation during replication energetically favorable, with continued strand separation at the replication fork resulting in underwound DNA that is then fixed by DNA gyrase.

Question 2) (1.5 points) True or false: UV based DNA damage largely causes dimerization of C and T bases that are fixed by the NER DNA repair pathway.

Question 3) (1.5 points) True or false: There is no enzyme within humans that has a reverse transcriptase activity.

Question 4) (1.5 points) True or false: One reason why uracil is not observed in DNA is that deamination of cytosine would result in Uracil and therefore potentially changing a GC base bp to an AT bp after a couple of rounds of replication.

Question #5: (1 point) Which of these statements is correct about the RNA polymerase? a) It makes tRNA, mRNA and rRNA b) It uses an RNA template c) It uses ATP, CTP, GTP and TTP d) It requires a primer

Question #6: (1 point) RNA polymerase grows the RNA chain in the 3â to 5â direction. a) True b) False

Question #7: (1 point) The mRNA is copied from the template strand. The mRNA has the exact same nucleotide sequence of the non-template strand except for U instead of T. a) True b) False

Question #8: (1 point) Only a limited portion of the DNA strand is copied by RNA polymerase, and there are initiation and termination signals for transcription. a) True b) False

Question #9: (1 point) The hairpin loop is the only way to conduct transcription termination in Prokaryotes. a) True b) False

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1 DNA sequences found in introns provide [A] amino acid sequence information.

[B] regulatory information.
[C] no known useful information.

[D] structure for the gene.
[E] alternative DNA splicing possibilities.

3. The TATA box is a(n)
[A] sequence close to the promoter region of many genes.
[B] square-shaped sequence.
[C] enhancer consensus sequence.
[D] activator sequence necessary for proper translation.
[E] None of the above

5. Regarding genes and gene expression, which of the following is not a difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
[A] Eukaryotic DNA does not contain a TATA box close to the initiation site as does prokaryotic DNA.

[B] In eukaryotes, RNA polymerase requires

'transcription factors'or initiation.

[C] Prokaryotic genes are often grouped together in

operons.

[D] In eukaryotes, the regulation of several genes at once requires common control elements in each of the genes.
[E] There is a diversity of eukaryotic polymerases that is reflected in the diversity of eukaryotic promoters.

10) In eukaryotic cells, a repressor

[A] is made of DNA.
[B] binds to the enhancer region to block transcription. [

C] is located both upstream and downstream from the promoter.
[D] binds to the operator to block RNA polymerase.

[E] binds to a silencer to reduce transcription rates.

Coordinated regulation of genes in eukaryotic cells [A] is the result of positioning the same regulatory sequence in front of each gene.
[B] results from all of those genes being under the control of one promoter.

[C] occurs because related genes all have the same

operons.
[D] occurs because enhancers cause DNA to bend.

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