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DNA

• Avery and other scientists discovered that DNA is the nucleic acid that stores and transmits the genetic information from one generation of an organism to the next.

• Watson and Crick’s model of DNA was a double helix, in which two strands were wounded around each other.

• Nucleotide – nucleic acid made up of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base

• There are four nitrogenous bases: Thymine (T), Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C)

• Base pairing – principle that bonds in DNA can form only between A and T and between G and C.

CHROMOSOMES AND DNA REPLICATION• During DNA replication, the DNA molecule separates

into two strands, then produces two new complementary strands following the rules of base pairing.

• Each strand of the double helix serves as a template, or model, for the new strand.

• Chromatin – granular material visible within the nucleus, consists of DNA tightly coiled around proteins

• Replication – copying process by which cells duplicate its DNA

• DNA polymerase – enzyme involved in DNA replication that joins individual nucleotides to produce a DNA molecule

RNA AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS

• There are three main types of RNA: messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and transfer RNA (tRNA).

• During transcription, RNA polymerase binds to DNA and separates the DNA strands. RNA polymerase the uses one strand of DNA as a template from which nucleotides are assembled into a strand of RNA. When assembling the RNA strand, Thymine is replaced by Uracil (U).

• During translation, the cell uses information from mRNA to produce proteins.

• Gene – sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait.

• mRNA – RNA molecule that carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids into proteins from DNA to the rest of the cell

• rRNA – type of RNA that makes up the major part of ribosomes

• tRNA – type of RNA molecule that transfers amino acids to ribosomes during protein synthesis

• Codon – three-nucleotide sequence of mRNA that codes for a single amino acid.

• Anticodon – group of three bases on a tRNA molecule that are complementary to an mRNA codon.

• Promoter – region of DNA that indicates to an enzyme where to bind to make RNA

MUTATIONS

• Mutations are changes in genetic material.

• Gene mutations result from changes in a single gene.

• Chromosomal mutations involve changes in whole chromosomes.

• Frameshift mutation – mutation that shifts the “reading” frame of the genetic message by inserting or deleting a nucleotide.

• Point mutation – gene mutations involving changes in one or a few nucleotidesInsertion – a base is inserted into the DNA sequenceDeletion – a base is deleted from the DNA sequenceSubstitution – a base is changed for another in a DNA sequence

CHAPTER 12 ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

Pages 315 – 316

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