BIOL 2051 : Microbiology Test 2 Notes

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Key processes involving genetic information: replication making a copy of dna, transcription synthesis of rna from dna template, translation synthesis of proteins from mrna. Plasmids are generally small (low base pair count around 1000s) Structure of dna: hydrogen bonds between nitrogenous bases of dna (adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, the strands composing dna run anti-parallel to each other (parallel, opposite directions) In bacterial cells gyrase pulls strands of dna through and packages it compactly and neatly in supercoils. Types of rna: messenger rna (mrna, translated into protein, transfer rna (trna, carry amino acids to be put into proteins, ribosomal rna (rrna) Rna polymerase: u is used in place of t during transcription, varies between domains. However, in bacteria the rna does not need to be processed before leaving the nucleoid. In both eukaryotes and prokaryotes multiple polymerase may be transcribing the same sequence. There are no introns in prokaryotic genes: multiple genes therefore can be transcribed forming a polycistronic mrna.

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