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DNA Notes
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The passing on of traits from parent to offspring is called heredity.
Vocabulary Review: The passing on of traits from parent to offspring is called heredity.
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Vocabulary Review: The study of traits being passed from generation to generation is called Genetics!
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Inheritance is the traits that a cell receives!
Vocabulary Review: Inheritance is the traits that a cell receives!
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Alternate forms of genes are called Alleles.
Vocabulary Review: The genetic material to be passed on to offspring cells is carried by DNA ! Alternate forms of genes are called Alleles. Each parent passes on one allele for each trait.
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Vocabulary review The picture of alleles inherited from the parent cells is called Karyotype.
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DNA stands for: D: Deoxyribose N: Nucleic A: Acid
ALL living thing has DNA. That means that you have something in common with a zebra, a tree, a mushroom and a beetle!!!!
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Looks Like:
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Let’s make our own DNA molecule. (In candy!)
Activity Let’s make our own DNA molecule. (In candy!)
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Instructions Materials Two pieces of licorice 6 toothpicks
12 different colored marshmallows (4 different colors) The licorice is the DNA “backbone” (or the sides of the ladder) The marshmallows connect the two sides of the ladder with a toothpick (think of the marshmallows as the two parts of velcro) Remember only certain colors can “stick” together in DNA Red goes with Orange Yellow goes with Green
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Chromosomes Made of DNA and Protein.
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What does DNA look like?
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DNA = Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Made up of nucleotides Phosphate Sugar (deoxyribose) Base 4 types Adenine (A) Guanine (G) Thymine (T) Cytocine (C)
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A Nucleotide:
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Chemically it looks like:
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Genes A section of DNA Contains the information to code for one specific protein Made up of a series of bases in a row
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DNA: The _Genetic_ Code
Genes main function is to control the _production of proteins in an organism’s cells. Proteins help to determine the size, shape, color, and many other traits of an organism
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DNA is found inside the Nucleus!
Proteins are made in the ribosomes of cells by organelles called nucleoleus. Ribosomes may be free in the _Cytoplasma_ or attached to the surface of Endoplasmic Reticulum.
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Making Proteins During protein synthesis, the cell uses information from a gene on a chromosome to produce a specific protein These Genes code for polypeptides (proteins) Proteins are used to build cells and do much of the work inside cells
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Protein Synthesis
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Scientific Contributions
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Gregor Johann Mendel Austrian monk
Mendelian Genetics 12/5/2018 Gregor Johann Mendel Austrian monk Studied the inheritance of traits in pea plants Developed the laws of inheritance. Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century.
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Mendelian Genetics 12/5/2018 Gregor Johann Mendel Between 1856 and 1863, Mendel cultivated and tested some 28,000 pea plants He found that the plants' offspring retained traits of the parents. Called the “Father of Genetics" copyright cmassengale
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Mendel stated that physical traits are inherited as “particles”
Mendel did not know that the “particles” were actually Chromosomes & DNA
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Erwin Chargaff Amount of Adenine = Amount of Thymine Amount of Cytosine = Amount of Guanine
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Rosalin Franklin Used x-ray diffraction & learned…. DNA is spiral shaped
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James Watson & Francis Crick
Created the first Model of DNA
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The Twisted Ladder shape is called a……
Double Helix
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Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
Sutton discovered that sex cells contain half the number of chromosomes as body cells. One set of alleles comes from the male parent; the second set comes from the female parent Chromosome theory of inheritance Genes are carried from parents to their offspring on chromosomes
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Review: Which of the following is not part of a nucleotide? a. base b. sugar c. fat d. phosphate
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If a sample of DNA contained 20%cytosine, what percent of guanine would be in the sample?___________
What percent of adenine would be in the sample? ___________________
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What would be the complimentary strand of DNA for this strand: ATG GTA
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James Watson and Francis Crick….
a. Took X-ray pictures of DNA b. Discovered that genes are in chromosomes c. Made model’s to figure out DNA’s shape d. Bred pea plant’s to study heredity
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Create your own segment of DNA
Color code your molecules! Rules: 1. Phosphates attach to sugars only 2. Sugars attach to phosphates & bases 3. Bases attach to sugars and with other bases, but… *Adenine will only pair with Thymine *Guanine will only pair with Cytosine 4. One strand of DNA goes 3’ to 5’ while the other goes 5’ to 3’…that means one side is up side down! 5. Your strand must have 10 nucleotides! (5 on each side!)
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Mutations Any change in a gene or chromosome
Can cause a cell to produce an incorrect protein during protein synthesis. The trait or phenotype may be different Body cell mutations will not be passed on to offspring If the mutation is in a sex cell, the mutation can be passed on to an offspring and affect the offspring’s phenotype
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Question If a cat gets hit by a car and loses a leg, does this mean it will have kittens that are also missing a leg?
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Effects of Mutations Introduce changes in an organism
Can be a source of genetic variety Some are harmful, some are helpful, others are neither helpful nor harmful A mutation is harmful if it reduces the organism’s chance for survival and reproduction
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