Lecture 3

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How is DNA selectively amplified? (2)
"PCR, cloning"
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What is the rate of amplification using PCR?
Millions of copies in 2 hours
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At what temperature is DNA denatured?
95 degrees celcius
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What happens during annealing? (2)
"Temp dropped to 60 degrees, primer added to singular DNA strands"
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What temperature change allows extension to take place?
70 degrees celsius
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What is extension?
Base pairs attached to strands
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How many cycles of PCR is the usual standard?= =~30
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What are the advantages of PCR? (3)
"Targeted, allows for analysis of highly degraded DNA samples, can detect sequences not normally present (viruses)"
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How are genes separated?
Gel electrophoresis
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What are the different types of gels used for electrophoresis? (3)
"Polyacrylamide gels, agarose gels, pulsed field gel"
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How is DNA separated by agarose gel?
Agarose gel contains small ‘pores’ which allows smaller DNA molecules to move through it faster than larger ones
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What are the advanced methods of sequencing? (2)
"Capillary sequencing, Massively parallel sequencing"
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Which sequencing technique analyses RNA?
RT-PCR
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What are the components of a ‘taqman’ probe? (2)
"Flourophore, quencher"
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What is hybridisation?
Formation of double strand DNA from two single strands with complementary sequences that have be obtained from two sources and denatured
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What methods are used to denature with hybridisation?
"Heat, alkali"
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What are some hybridisation methods? (3)
"Single nucleotide polymorphism arrays (SNP), microarray, array comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH)"
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What is RT-PCR used for?
Analysing RNA
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What are the methods for analysing proteins? (3)
"Immunohistochemistry (IHC), western blot, immunoassay"
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What does western blotting tell us about a protein? (2)
"Amount, size"