BIO206H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis, Recombinant Dna, Restriction Enzyme

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In the 1970s, it became possible to isolate a selected piece of dna from the millions of nucleotide pairs in a chromosome. Recombinant dna technology: collection of techniques in which dna fragments from different sources are combined to make a new dna (used to clone genes, genetic modification of organisms, and molecular biology) Restriction endonucleases (restriction enzymes) are a subset of enzymes that cut double stranded dna at specific dna sequences identified by the enzyme itself. Therefore, they can be used to produce a set of dna fragments from any genome. Nucleases: enzymes that cut phosphodiester bonds between nucleotides in a nucleic acid. Exonucleases: cuts the nucleic acid from the 5" to the 3" end. Restriction nucleases cut dna molecules at specific sites. Certain bacteria always degrade foreign dna that is introduced to them experimentally. This is caused by bacterial nucleases that cleave the dna at specific nucleotide sequences.

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1.) A restriction recognition site is repeated 1 times on a circular DNA molecule. If you treat this DNA molecule with this restriction enzyme, how many DNA fragments will you get?

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. Restriction enzyme does not cut a circular molecule

2.) In an agarose gel DNA electrophoresis, the DNA fragments are separated based on their

a. Size

b. Electrical charge

c. Nucleotides sequences

d. Density

e. All of the above

3.) DNA molecules are usually separated using agarose gel rather than polyacrylamide because:

a. Agarose polymerizes faster than acrylamide gel

b. Polyacrylamide gel has pore size larger than the size of DNA molecules

c. Agarose gel do not have pores on tis matrix and can hold large DNA molecules

d. Agarose gel has larger pore size similar to the size of DNA molecules

4.) Restriction endonucleases

a. Randomly recognize and cut DNA sequences

b. Hydrolysis the phosphodiester bond of DNA backbone

c. Recognize specific sequence on double stranded DNA

d. A and B

e. B and C

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1) Which of the following is FALSE about plasmid vectors ued in recombinant DNA research?
A) Usually carrry an antibiotic resistance gene
B) Clonin sites are always located between genes, that is, outside coding sequences
C) May hae a multiple clonin gsite which can be cut by several restriction enzymes
D) May be expression vectors

2) Which of the following is FLASE about Sanger Dideoxy DNA sequencing protocols?
A) Different specfiic chemical reactions break the DNA at each base.
B) Fluorescent molecules can be used to detect the DNA
C) The Template is single stranded DNA
D) Many steps can be automated

3) A southern blot transfers ___ to a Nitrocellulose membrane.
A) Protein
B) RNA
C) DNA
D) Lipid

4) Which of the following is true about cDNA?
A) It is made from DNA template
B) It is isolated from bacteria
C) Reverse transcriptase is used to synthesize cDNA
D) It has introns

5) The restriction endonucleases used in recombinant DNA work:
A) Always produce blunt ends (No unpaired bases)
B) Recognize sequences 4-6 bp long
C) Cut the DNA outisde the recognition sequence
D) All of the above

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From the list below, which of the following is the most logicalsequence of steps for splicing foreign DNA into a plasmid andinserting the plasmid into a bacterium?
I. Transformbacteria with recombinant DNA molecule
II. Cutthe plasmid DNA using restriction enzymes
III. Extractplasmid DNA from bacterial cells
IV. Hydrogen-bondthe plasmid DNA to nonplasmid DNA fragments
V. Useligase to seal plasmid DNA to nonplasmid DNA

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Plasmids (or vectors) are important in biotechnology becausethey are

a vehicle for the insertion of recombinant DNA intobacteria.

surfaces for respiratory processes in bacteria.

recognition sites on recombinant DNA strands.

surfaces for protein synthesis in eukaryotic recombinants.

proviruses incorporated into the host DNA

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Plasmids are put into bacterial cells by

restriction enzymes

DNA ligase

binding of cohesive sticky ends

transformation

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Restriction enzymes usually

cut donor DNA evenly so smooth edges result

cut donor DNA but do not affect plasmids

make staggered cuts at specific sequences in DNA in both donorDNA and plasmid

are used in ligating plasmids into bacterial host cells

more than one of the above

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After combining DNA fragments in a cloning experiment, ___ isused to covalently join the DNA segments.

Restriction enzyme

DNA Ligase

Reverse transcriptase

DNA polymerase

Helicase

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It is theoretically possible for a gene from any organism tofunction in any other organism. Why is this possible?

All organisms have ribosomes.

All organisms have the same genetic code.

All organisms are made up of cells.

All organisms have similar nuclei.

All organisms have transfer RNA.

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Assume that you are trying to insert a gene into a plasmid andsomeone gives you a DNA sample cut with restriction enzyme X. Thegene you wish to insert from the given sample has sites on bothends for cutting by restriction enzyme Y. You have a plasmid with asingle site for Y, but not for X. Your strategy should be to

cut the plasmid with restriction enzyme X and insert thefragments cut with Y into the plasmid.

cut the plasmid with enzyme X and then insert the gene into theplasmid.

cut the DNA again with restriction enzyme Y and insert thesefragments into the plasmid cut with the same enzyme.

cut the plasmid twice with restriction enzyme Y and ligate thetwo fragments onto the ends of the human DNA fragments cut withrestriction enzyme X.

insert the fragments cut with X directly into the plasmidwithout cutting the plasmid.

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Which of the following is/are false in regard to expressionplasmids (also called expression vectors)?

They are used to make proteins using a cloned gene.

They contain a promotor.

They are the first plasmid type used to clone a gene.

They contain a terminator.

More than one of the above is false.

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What is NOT a potential problem(s) associated with usingbacteria containing a cloned eukaryotic gene (e.g. a human gene) toproduce a functional protein?

If the eukaryotic gene contains introns the bacteria will notremove them and the resulting amino acid sequence will be differentthat that made by a eukaryote.

The bacteria may not fold the protein correctly.

The bacteria may degrade the protein.

All of the above are potential problems.

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Cloning allows for production of proteins in much larger amountsthan occurs in the cells from which the gene is isolated.

True

False

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Gene cloning is used to do all of the following except

Make insulin