Becker's World of the Cell (9th Edition)
Becker's World of the Cell (9th Edition)
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Author: Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 17, Problem 17.7PS

(a)

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To determine:  The base in DNA to be deaminated to form each of the bases in reference to figure 17-36a from the question.

Introduction:  DNA refers to the genetic material of a cell. DNA is a double stranded structure and each strand is made up of nucleotides. A nucleotide is made up of four nitrogenous bases which are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine along with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group. Covalent bonds are used to join one nucleotide to the next.

(b)

Summary Introduction

To determine: The reason for depiction of three bases in reference to figure 17-36a from the question when DNA contains four bases.

Introduction: DNA refers to the genetic material of a cell. DNA is a double stranded structure and each strand is made up of nucleotides. A nucleotide is made up of four nitrogenous bases which are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine along with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group. Covalent bonds are used to join one nucleotide to the next.

(c)

Summary Introduction

To explain: The importance that the bases in reference to figure 17-36a given in the question do not occur naturally in DNA.

Introduction: DNA refers to the genetic material of a cell. DNA is a double stranded structure and each strand is made up of nucleotides. A nucleotide is made up of four nitrogenous bases which are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine along with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group. Covalent bonds are used to join one nucleotide to the next.

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To determine: The reason that the presence of 5-Methylcytosine is likely to increase the probability of a mutation.

Introduction: DNA refers to the genetic material of a cell. DNA is a double stranded structure and each strand is made up of nucleotides. A nucleotide is made up of four nitrogenous bases which are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine along with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group. Covalent bonds are used to join one nucleotide to the next.

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pppApCpCpUpApGpApU-OH(a) Using the straight-chain sugar convention, write the structure of the DNA strand that encoded this short stretch of RNA.(b) Using the simplest convention for representing the DNA base sequence, write the structure of the nontemplate DNA strand.
In E. coli, all newly synthesized DNA appears to be fragmented (an observation that could be interpreted to mean that the leading strand as well as the lagging strand is synthesized discontinuously). However, in E. coli mutants that are defective in uracil–DNA glycosylase, only about half the newly synthesized DNA is fragmented. Explain.
In human DNA, 70% of cytosine residues that are followed by guanine (so-called CpG dinucleotides, where p indicates the phosphate in the phosphodiester bond between these two nucleotides) are methylated to form 5-methylcytosine. As shown in the following figure, if 5-methylcytosine should undergo spontaneous deamination, it becomes thymine. NH, Deamination NH 5-methylcytosine Thymine Methylated CpG dinucleotides are hotspots for point mutations in human DNA. Can you propose a hypothesis that explains why?
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