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04/04/2007

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Oncogene
Definition
mutated/deregulated gene whose inappropriate expression leads to cancer
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Proto-oncogence
Definition
normal cell gene, involved in the control of normal cell growth and proliferation (cell cycle control, transcription factor, DNA repair gene)
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Tumor Suppressor gene
Definition
loss of gene critical for apppropriate cell growth (eg. cell cycle control, DNA repair) can cause predispositions to cancer in heterozygotes.
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Paracentric inversion
Definition
centromere not involved, crossovers whithin paracentric will produce acentric and dicentric products that contain duplications and deficiencies
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Pericentric Inversion
Definition
Centromere is involved, will produce meiotic products that contain gene duplications and defiencies
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Fragile X Syndrome
Definition
8% of males with mental retardation, 1/1250 male births, other features include large testes, prominent jaw and head, large ears
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Fragile Site
Definition
region that can break off (narrowing or a gap)
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Chromosomal Abnormalities
Definition
not that uncommon, 15% of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions 1/2 have chromosomal abnormalities, 1/200 live births has a detectable chromosomal abnormality (mostly downs syndrom)
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Amniocentesis
Definition
preformed on pregnant women to detet chromosomal abnormalities, involves getting sample of amniotic fluid
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Colchicine Treatment
Definition
chromosome # is doubled, restoring ability to propagate sexually
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autopolyploids
Definition
contain mulitiples of the same chromosome set (Same Species)
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allopolyploids
Definition
contain multiples of differnt chromosome sets (differnt species)
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triploids
Definition
often sterile due to pairing problems during meiosis
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point mutations
Definition
single base pair change or alteration in a small number of bases
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morphological mutations
Definition
affect outwardly visible properties
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lethal mutations
Definition
loss of viablity, change in characteristic ratio or number of recovered progeny
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biochemical mutations
Definition
can lead to changes in growth requirements of an organism
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Loss of funtion alleles
Definition
generally recessive, lead to decrease in amount of gene product
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null alleles
Definition
no gene product produced
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weak or leaky alleles
Definition
some gene product is still being produced
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Gain of Function Alleles
Definition
can be dominant, a mutant phenotype can arise even in the presence of a wild type allele, may produce new funtion or altered function
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protothroph
Definition
an organism with wild-type growth requirements, will be able to grow on minimal medium
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auxotroph
Definition
an organism that will proliferate only when media is supplemented with some specific substance not required by wild-type organisms
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monoploid
Definition
male honeybees
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F Factors
Definition
are episomes, mediate conjugation, carry their own origin of replication
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Mammalian Y chromosomes
Definition
are largely heterochromatic, can pai with X chromosome during meiotic prophase I, contain homology at the DNA level with a region of the X chromosome
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fragile X syndrome
Definition
associated with amplification of trinucleotide repeat in DNA
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Reciprocal Translocation
Definition
a somatic mutational event observed in chronic myelogenus leukemia
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Barr bodies
Definition
in humans number of barr bodies abserved is one less than than the number of X chromosomes
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Chargaff's Rule
Definition
Indicated that DNA might be self complementary
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telomerase
Definition
the RNA molecule that is part of this enzyme is used as a template
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prophage
Definition
integration event associated with lysogeny
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Rb protien
Definition
tumor suppressor gene product involved in cell cycle control
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philadelphia chromosome
Definition
reciprocal translocation
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bilateral retinoblastoma
Definition
associated with chromosome 13 deletions
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plaque
Definition
result of bacteriolysis
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pilli
Definition
"male" E. coli
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facultative heterochromatin
Definition
used by Avery to show DNA is transforming principle
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lysogeny
Definition
temperate phage
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semi-conservative replication
Definition
demonstrated through use of CsC1 density-gradient centrifugation
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