BIOL 2051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dna Polymerase Iii Holoenzyme, Dna Polymerase I, Dna Polymerase

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Molecule of heredity: deoxyribonucleic acid (dna) Gene: information in dna that codes for a single polypeptide, sequence of nucleotides corresponds to sequence of amino acids. The three key processes of macromolecular synthesis are: dna replication- making a copy of dna, transcription- synthesis of rna from a dna template, translation- synthesis of proteins using messenger rna as a template. Basic processes are the same in prokaryotes & eukaryotes, but the organization of genetic information is more complex in eukaryotes. Two major differences: eukaryotes contain non-coding regions called introns, single prokaryotic mrna often contains more than one coding region. Dna is a double-stranded helix (twisted ladder) The two strands in the double helix are antiparallel (run in opposite directions) The 2 dna polynucleotide strands have base sequences that are complementary: adenine always pairs with thymine (a = t, guanine always pairs with cytosine (g = c) Hydrogen bonds hold the two strands together. Dna is made of deoxyribonucleotides linked by phosphodiester bonds.

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