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Nucleotide codes: What is a Codon?
Series of three nucleotides is called a codon.
What does a codon code for? Each codon codes for a
specific amino acid in a protein.
Amino acids are assembles into proteins
What do these codons have to do with proteins?
Each codon represents an amino acid that will eventually form a protein that is used within a cell.
Proteins are made up of hundreds of amino acids in a specific sequence.
When they get “out of order’ a mutation occurs.
Long string of amino acids will form
DNA ReplicationDNA duplicates itself
prior to cell division.
DNA replication begins with the unwinding of the DNA strands of the double helix.
Each strand is now exposed to a collection of free nucleotides that will be used to recreate the double helix, letter by letter, using base pairing.
PCR Many enzymes and proteins, such as DNA polymerases,
are involved in unwinding the DNA, keeping the DNA strands apart, and assembling the new DNA strands.
PCR is a technique for replicating small quantities of DNA or broken pieces of DNA found at a crime scene, outside a living cell.
sample size is no longer a limitation in characterizing DNA recovered at a crime scene
DNA Thermal Cyclerinstrument that automates the rapid and precise
temperature changes required to copy a DNA strand
Within a matter of hours, DNA can be multiplied a billionfold
How does DNA Replication begin?
unwinding of DNA
double helix is recreated with proper order of base pairs
PCR for replicating
Recombinant DNARecombinant DNA relies on
the ability of restriction enzymesto cut DNA into fragmentscan later be incorporated
into another DNA strand.
Restriction enzymes highly specialized scissorscut a DNA molecule when it
recognizes a specific sequence of bases.
Once a portion of the DNA strand has been cut
the next step in the recombinant DNA process is to insert the isolated DNA segment into a foreign DNA strand
usually that of a bacterium.
As the bacteria multiply rapidly, copies of the altered DNA are passed on to all descendants
Examples of Recombinant DNA
Human insulin
Chymosinfound in rennet, which is an enzyme required to make
cheese
Human Growth Hormoneadministered to patients whose pituitary glands
generate insufficient HGHoriginally obtained from pituitary glands of cadavers
Hepatitis B vaccineprevention of hepatitis B infection
Diagnosis of infection with HIVeach of the three widely used methods for diagnosing
DNA TypingTandem Repeats
Portions of the DNA molecule contain sequences of bases that are repeated numerous times
offer a means of distinguishing one individual from another through DNA typing.
seem to act as filler or spacers between the coding regions of DNA.
What is important to understand is that all humans have the same type of repeatsbut there is tremendous variation in the
number of repeats each of us have.
Figure 9-6 A DNA segment consisting of a series of repeating DNA units. In this illustration, the fifteen-base core can repeat itself hundreds of times. The entire RFLP segment is typically hundreds to thousands of bases long.
An example would be:
A-T-T-C-G-A-T-T-C-G-A-T-T-C-G
in which the sequence A-T-T-C-G is repeated three times
Such repeated sequences facilitate the genetic fingerprinting of individuals.an individual may inherit a certain number of
repeats at one locus from their mother, and a different number of repeats at the same locus, from their father.
http://www.rvc.ac.uk/review/DNA_1/4_VNTRs.cfm