DNA replication is the process by which a cell makes an identical copy of its DNA. There are three proposed models of replication: conservative, semi-conservative, and dispersive. Meselson-Stahl experiments provided evidence supporting the semi-conservative model. DNA replication involves unwinding of the DNA double helix, synthesis of an RNA primer, and elongation of the DNA strands by DNA polymerase. Telomeres protect chromosome ends from degradation during replication. Cancer cells maintain telomere length through expression of telomerase. Maintaining healthy lifestyle habits can help lengthen telomeres and delay aging.
DNA and RNA molecules are linear polymers built from individual units called nucleotides connected by bonds called phosphodiester linkages. DNA and RNA are used to store and pass genetic information from one generation to the next.
DNA and RNA molecules are linear polymers built from individual units called nucleotides connected by bonds called phosphodiester linkages. DNA and RNA are used to store and pass genetic information from one generation to the next.
DNA Replication In Eukaryotes (Bsc.Zoology)DebaPrakash2
This Slide Is explanation of Mechanism of DNA Replication In Eukaryotes.
As we know we all have DNA as the genetic material and So we should know how this DNA getting Duplicated so that it'll pass to daughter cells.
DNA Replication In Eukaryotes (Bsc.Zoology)DebaPrakash2
This Slide Is explanation of Mechanism of DNA Replication In Eukaryotes.
As we know we all have DNA as the genetic material and So we should know how this DNA getting Duplicated so that it'll pass to daughter cells.
Replication Introduction , DNA replicating Models , Meselson and Stahl Experiments , Circuler Model of DNA replication , Replication in Prokaryotes , Replication In Eukaryotes , Comparison Between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes Replicaton and PCR (Polymerease Chain Reaction)
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Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
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Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
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M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
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at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
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I Introduction
II Subalternation and Theology
III Theology and Dogmatic Declarations
IV The Mixed Principles of Theology
V Virtual Revelation: The Unity of Theology
VI Theology as a Natural Science
VII Theology’s Certitude
VIII Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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2. 1. Why do we need to study DNA Replication?
2. What is DNA Replication?
3. How can we apply our knowledge about DNA
Replication to our classroom or daily life?
The Big Questions
4. 1. To understand cancer
2. To understand aging
3. To understand diseases related to DNA repair
● a) Bloom’sSyndrome
● b) XerodermaPigmentosum
● c) Werner’sSyndrome
The Why do we need to study DNA Replication?
7. Learning Objectives:
• Explain how the structure of DNA reveals the
replication process
• Describe the Meselson and Stahl experiments
01: Basics of DNA
Replication
8. DNA structure
● A DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) molecule looks like
a twisted ladder. Its shape is called a double helix.
A helix is a shape that twists.
● The two sides of the DNA ladder are made of sugar
moleculesalternating with phosphatemolecules.
● The rungs of the DNA molecule are made of
chemical building blocks called bases. The four
bases found in DNA are adenine (A), thymine (T),
cytosine (C), and guanine (G).
01: Basics of DNA Replication
9. ● Before mitosis the amount of DNA doubles.
● DNA replicationis the process of a DNA molecule
making a copy of itself.
● DNA replication occurs before mitosis begins and
before the first division of meiosis.
DNA replication ensures that each
daughter cell has an exact copy of the
DNA from the parent cell.
01: Basics of DNA Replication
10. ● DNA replication results in one DNA molecule
becoming two daughter molecules—each an exact
copy of the original molecule.
● DNA replication requires:
○ A set of proteins and enzymes
■ DNA polymerase, also known as DNA pol
● DNA pol adds nucleotides one-by-
one to the growing DNA chain that is
complementary to the template
strand.
○ Energy in form of ATP
01: Basics of DNA Replication
11. ● The double-helix model suggests that the two
strands of the double helix separate during
replication, and each strand serves as a template
from which the new complementary strand is
copied.
● What was not clear was how the replication took
place.
● There were three models suggested
○ Conservative
○ semi-conservative
○ dispersive.
01: Basics of DNA Replication
12. ● Conservative replication:
– The parental double helix remains intact;
– both strands of the daughter double helix are newly synthesized
It would leave the original template DNA strands intact and would
produce a copy composed of entirely new DNA base pairs.
01: Basics of DNA Replication
13. ● Semiconservative replication:
–It would produce two copies that each contained one of the original
strands, and one entirely new copy.
01: Basics of DNA Replication
14. ● Dispersive replication:
–At completion, both strands of both double helices contain both original
and newly synthesized material.
Dispersive replication would produce two copies of the DNA, both
containing a mixture of old and new DNA base pairs.
01: Basics of DNA Replication
15. The deciphering of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick in 1953
suggested that the semiconservative model was correct (as Watson and Crick
pointed out in a sly one-line concluding sentence to their seminal paper).
This was soon verified by Meselson-Stahlexperiment.
01: Basics of DNA Replication
17. ● The steps of DNA replication can be summarized
into four:
Step1: ReplicationFork Formation
Step2: Primer Binding
Step3: Elongation
Step4: Termination
01: Basics of DNA Replication
18. Learning Objectives:
• Explain the process of DNA replication in
prokaryotes
• Discuss the role of different enzymes and
proteins in supporting this process
02: DNA
Replication in
Prokaryotes
19. ● DNA replication in Prokaryotes requires:
○ Three main types of polymerases are known:
DNA pol I, DNA pol II, and DNA pol III.
■ DNA pol I is an important accessory
enzyme in DNA replication,
■ along with DNA pol II, is primarily
required for repair.
■ DNA pol IIIis the enzyme required for
DNA synthesis.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
20. Step1: ReplicationFork
Formation
1. DNA unwinds at the origin of
replication.
How does the replication machinery
know where to begin?It turns out that
there are specificnucleotide sequences
called origins of replication where
replicationbegins.
2. Helicase opens up the DNA-
forming replication forks;
these are extended
bidirectionally.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
21. Step1: ReplicationFork
Formation
3. Single-strand binding
proteins coat the DNA around
the replication fork to prevent
rewinding of the DNA.
4. Topoisomerase binds at
the region ahead of the
replication fork to prevent
supercoiling
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
22. Step2: PrimerBinding
5. Primase synthesizes RNA
primers complementary to the
DNA strand.
6. DNA polymerase III starts
adding nucleotides to the 3'-OH
end of the primer.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
25. Step4: Termination
8. RNA primers are removed
by exonuclease activity.
9. Gaps are filled by DNA pol I
by adding dNTPs.
10. The gap between the two
DNA fragments is sealed by
DNA ligase, which helps in the
formation of phosphodiester
bonds.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
27. Learning Objectives:
• Discuss the similarities and differences
between DNA replication in eukaryotes and
prokaryotes
• State the role of telomerase in DNA replication
03: DNA
Replication in
Eukaryotes
28. TheDNAReplicationin Eukaryotes:
Step 1: Replication Fork Formation
Step 2: Primer Binding
Step 3: Elongation
Step 4: Termination
03: DNA Replication in Eukaryotes
29. 03: DNA Replication in Eukaryotes
The number of DNA polymerases in eukaryotes
is much more than in prokaryotes: 14 are known,
of which five are known to have major roles
during replication and have been well studied.
They are known as pol α, pol β, pol γ, pol δ, and
pol ε.
Eukaryotic DNA is bound to basic proteins known
as histones to form structures called
nucleosomes. Histones must be removed and
then replaced during the replication process,
which helps to account for the lower replication
rate in eukaryotes.
30. At the origin of replication, a
pre-replication complex is made
with other initiator proteins
Step1: ReplicationFork
Formation
1. DNA unwinds at the origin of
replication.
2. Helicase opens up the DNA-
forming replication forks;
these are extended
bidirectionally.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
31. Step1: ReplicationFork
Formation
3. Single-strand binding
proteins coat the DNA around
the replication fork to prevent
rewinding of the DNA.
4. Topoisomerase binds at
the region ahead of the
replication fork to prevent
supercoiling
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
32. Step2: Primer Binding
Primers are formed by the enzyme
primase, and using the primer, DNA pol
can start synthesis.
Three major DNA polymerases are then
involved: α, δ and ε.
● DNA pol α adds a short (20 to 30
nucleotides) DNA fragment to the
RNA primer on both strands, and
then hands off to a second
polymerase.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
33. Step3: Elongation
● While the leading strand is
continuously synthesized by the
enzyme pol ε, the lagging strand is
synthesized by pol δ
● A sliding clamp protein known as
PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear
antigen) holds the DNA pol in place
so that it does not slide off the DNA.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
34. Step4: Termination
• The primer RNA is then removed by
RNase H (AKA flap endonuclease)
and replaced with DNA nucleotides.
• The Okazaki fragments in the lagging
strand are joined after the
replacement of the RNA primers with
DNA.
• The gaps that remain are sealed by
DNA ligase, which forms the
phosphodiester bond.
02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
35. 02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
Telomerereplication
Unlike prokaryotic chromosomes,
eukaryotic chromosomes are linear.
The DNA at the ends of the
chromosome thus remains unpaired,
and over time these ends, called
telomeres, may get progressively
shorter as cells continue to divide.
36. 02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
Telomerereplication
● Telomeres comprise repetitive
sequences that code for no
particular gene.
● Telomeres protect the genes from
getting deleted as cells continue to
divide. The telomeres are added to
the ends of chromosomes by a
separate enzyme, telomerase.
● The telomerase enzyme contains a
catalytic part and a built-in RNA
template
40. 02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
TelomeraseandAging
● Cells that undergo cell division continue to have their telomeres shortened
because most somatic cells do not make telomerase. This essentially means
that telomere shortening is associated with aging.
● In 2010, scientists found that telomerase can reverse some age-related
conditions in mice. Telomerase reactivation in these mice caused extension
of telomeres, reduced DNA damage, reversed neurodegeneration, and
improved the function of the testes, spleen, and intestines. Thus, telomere
reactivation may have potential for treating age-related diseases in
humans.
41. 02: DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled cell division of abnormal cells. The
cells accumulate mutations, proliferate uncontrollably, and can migrate to
different parts of the body through a process called metastasis. Scientists have
observed that cancerous cells have considerably shortened telomeres and that
telomerase is active in these cells. Interestingly, only after the telomeres were
shortened in the cancer cells did the telomerase become active. If the action of
telomerase in these cells can be inhibited by drugs during cancer therapy, then
the cancerous cells could potentially be stopped from further division.
42. How can we apply our
knowledge about DNA
Replication to our
classroom or daily life?
43. ● Knowing our Telomeres Substantially Improves
Quality of Life
● 5 ways to encourage telomere lengthening and delay
shortening
● 1. Maintain a healthy weight.
● 2. Exercise regularly.
● 3. Manage chronic stress.
● 4. Eat a telomere-protective diet.
● 5. Incorporate supplements.
How can we apply our knowledge about DNA
Replication to our classroom or daily life?
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