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Chapter 16 Genetics
What Is a Gene?
Chromosomes: Packages of Genetic Information
The Structure of DNA
DNA Replication
How Proteins Are Built
Genetic Mutations
How Radioactivity Causes Genetic Mutations
Meiosis and Genetic Diversity
Mendelian Genetics
More Wrinkles: Beyond Mendelian Genetics
The Human Genome
Cancer: Genes Gone Awry
Environmental Causes of Cancer
Transgenic Organisms and Cloning
DNA Technology—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
History of Science: Discovery of the Double Helix
Technology: Gene Therapy
Science and Society: Genetic Counseling
Science and Society: DNA Forensics
Cancer cell metabolism: special Reference to Lactate PathwayAADYARAJPANDEY1
Normal Cell Metabolism:
Cellular respiration describes the series of steps that cells use to break down sugar and other chemicals to get the energy we need to function.
Energy is stored in the bonds of glucose and when glucose is broken down, much of that energy is released.
Cell utilize energy in the form of ATP.
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Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
introduction to WARBERG PHENOMENA:
WARBURG EFFECT Usually, cancer cells are highly glycolytic (glucose addiction) and take up more glucose than do normal cells from outside.
Otto Heinrich Warburg (; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) In 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
WARNBURG EFFECT : cancer cells under aerobic (well-oxygenated) conditions to metabolize glucose to lactate (aerobic glycolysis) is known as the Warburg effect. Warburg made the observation that tumor slices consume glucose and secrete lactate at a higher rate than normal tissues.
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2. How Does DNA work?
Like different kinds of desserts, one recipe (gene) makes a
cake while the other makes pudding. Both recipes make
desserts, but the desserts are different. Some genes are
more closely related than others like chocolate cake and
white cake compared with a jolly rancher.
Ingredients:
Sugar, Flavoring
Ingredients:
Sugar, Flour, Eggs,
Baking soda, Vanilla
Ingredients:
Sugar, Flour, Eggs,
Baking soda, Chocolate
3. DNA
• DNA resides in all cells
– Inside the nucleus
• Each strand forms a chromosome
Cell
Nucleus
DNA
4. DNA
DNA is found in all living cells
– It controls all functions
inside a cell
– It stores all the genetic
information for an entire
living organism
– Single cell like an amoeba
– Multi cell like a human
5. DNA
D.N.A. - Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Molecule made of:
1. Deoxy Sugar
2. Combination of four nitrogen bases
Either: a. Guanine
b. Cytocine
c. Thymine
d. Adenine
The sum total of combinations that these
four bases are capable of creating are
greater than all the stars visible in the night
time sky
6. DNA
• Nitrogen bases pair up
– Cytosine & Guanine
– Thymine & Adenine
• Pairing creates a ladder shape
• Angle of bonds creates a twist
Ladder and Twist produces the famous
“Double Helix”
7. Bases are Important!
• There are four bases:
• The order of these bases along a strand of
DNA codes for your genes.
Adenine
A
Thymine
T
Cytosine
C
Guanine
G
8. DNA is Fashionable
• Just like a model wearing a suit jacket
with suit pants, or a t-shirt with blue
genes, A only pairs with T and
G only pairs with C.
A T
G C
Remembering Key:
“AT”
G and C look alike
9. DNA Structure
In these two rows, the
bases interact to
make a twisted ladder
shape, called a
double helix (the
bases make up the
rungs on the ladder).
DNA
double
helix
DNA
backbone Bases
10. What do Nucleotides do?
• Three nucleotides in a row code for one amino acid.
• A long string of amino acids makes a protein.
A strand of: CTG ACT CCT GAG GAG AAC TCT
Codes for: Leu Thr Pro Glu Glu Lys Ser
Which is the beginning of the protein ______
Nucleotide Amino Acid Protein
Proteins allow the body to
perform and function
11. How do you know which
nucleotides code for which
amino acids?
T
T
T
T
T
T
12. What do proteins do?
• Proteins make you!
– Your hair is The protein Keratin
– The sequence of the amino acids of this protein determine
it’s structure and give you straight, curly, or frizzy hair.
Mmm!
14. How Do Cells Divide?
• Mitosis!
– All cells replicate and divide
through mitosis. This is how we
grow and replace aging cells.
– This involves all parts of the cell.
• DNA is the collection of
recipes that codes for life; it is
in every cell.
• When a cell replicates and
divides, the DNA replicates
and divides too.
15. How does DNA replicate?
• The two strands of DNA must be separated and copied.
• One protein separates the two strands of DNA.
• Another protein brings the correct new base to pair with the
existing base, thus using it as a template.
16. DNA Replication
• In this way, two DNA
strands are formed from
one.
– Each new DNA double
helix has one old strand
(the parent strand) and
one new strand (the
daughter strand).
Daughter Strand
Daughter
Strand
Parent
Strand
s
17. Your DNA
• All of the DNA in a cell of a human is
called the “human genome.”
• The human genome has over 3.2 billion
base pairs.
– If you were to string out one cell’s DNA, it
would be 6 feet long.
– How can 6 feet of DNA fit into the nucleus
of the cell, in every cell of your body???
18. DNA Condenses
• DNA tightly wraps around a spool just like kite
string.
• Condensing a strand of DNA is like taking a very
long string, sewing it into a shirt and balling up the
shirt into a very tight wad. The string is the DNA.
DNA Condensed DNA Chromosome
19. How DNA Condenses
1. DNA
2. DNA wraps
around proteins
3. Spooled DNA4. DNA condenses
20. Cells Divide by the Process of
Mitosis
Chromosomes line up in the middle
of the cell
DNA replicates to form chromosomes
(two copies of DNA)
Chromosomes are split. Half of each
chromosome travels to either end of the cell
The cell divides to form two new cells
with their own DNA
Cell with a single copy of DNA
21. Genetics
Small sections of DNA are responsible
for a “trait”. These small sections
are called “Genes”.
– Gene - A segment of DNA that codes for
a specific trait
– Trait - A characteristic an organism
can pass on to it’s offspring
through DNA
Gene
22. Genes
• Bits of information
passed down from
parent to child.
• Made of chemicals
called DNA.
23. Genetics
Hair color is a perfect example of a
trait
Prince Charming
is blond
Snow White
has dark hair
What color hair
should their children
have?
24. • Personality traits
– Kindness
– Vegetarian or
Carnivore
– Athlete
***Traits you can
control
25. Who are you?
This question can be answered many ways…
• Physical Traits
– Height
– Eye color
– Hair color and texture
– Foot size
– Bone strength
• Others???
• Age
• Sex
***Traits you can’t
control
Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal
• Occurs when traits are passed
down from parent to child.
27. What determines your
physical characteristics?
• GENES
– Genes are molecules in
every cell that act like
recipes.
– They tell your cells how
to behave by coding for
proteins.
– Genes determine how we
look, move and grow .
– You get your genes from
your parents.
28. What are your genes?
• DNA (Deoxyribonucleic
Acid)
– DNA holds your specific
code for every part of
your body. It is the
collection of recipe
books.
– A gene is made of a long
strand of DNA.
– There are about 30,000
genes in your DNA.
DNA
29. • Chromosomes come in matching pairs, thus genes
come in pairs.
• Example: Humans have 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs.
One set from dad – 23
One set from mom – 23
30. How do parents pass on
genes to their children?
• Traits are passed on from both
parents.
• You have some traits from your
mom and some from your dad.
• Because traits are coded for by
DNA, you have some of your
mom’s DNA and some of your
dad’s DNA. But your DNA is
unique to you; no one else has
exactly the same DNA as you
(unless you are a twin).
31. How are our traits a combination
of our parents traits?
• Traits are not mixed when they are passed on.
– For example, if your mom has blue eyes and your dad has yellow
eyes, you will not have green eyes. You will either have blue or
yellow eyes.
• Some traits are determined by dominance.
– If you have two genes in you that code for the same trait, one trait
will win over the other. The trait that “wins” is the dominant gene.
The trait that does not get expressed is the recessive gene.
• Some traits, like height, are determined by genes from both parents.
There is not one dominant gene for these traits.
Dominant Traits:
-attached or unattached earlobes
-widow’s peak hairline
Combination Traits:
-height
-hair color
32. Genetics
There are three basic kinds of genes:
– Dominant - A gene that is always
expressed and hides others
– Recessive - A gene that is only
expressed when a dominant gene isn’t
present
– Codominant - Genes that work together
to produce a third trait
33.
34.
35. Dominant Traits
Each person has two genes for every trait.
• Dominant physical characteristics will show up unless
both genes code for the recessive trait.
Dominant trait: Unattached earlobes, “U”
Recessive trait: Attached earlobes, “A”
Attache
d
“A”
Unattached
“U”
If your genes code:
UU
UA
AA
You will have:
Unattached
Unattached
Attached
36. Genetics
Punnet Square - A tool we use for
predicting the traits of an offspring
– Letters are used as symbols to designate
genes
– Capital letters are used for dominant
genes
– Lower case letters are used for
recessive genes
– Genes always exist in pairs
37. Predicting Physical
Characteristics
• When a scientist knows the
characteristics of the
parents, he or she can
predict the characteristics of
the offspring using a
Punnett-Square
• Genes of both parents are
labeled on the outside of the
big square.
• Each combination of the
parent’s genes in the small
squares is a possible
combination for the offspring.
Genes of Parent 1:
A B
GenesofParent2:
A
B
AA AB
BBAB
Offspring could be:
AA, AB, AB, or BB
38. Probability (P)
• By knowing which genes the parents have, you can
figure out the probability those parent’s have of
having a child with a certain trait.
If the parents are
both dominant
(DD):
D D
D
D
DD DD
DD DD
4 out of 4 children
will have the dominant trait.
P = 4/4
If the parents are both
dominant but also carry
the recessive gene (DR):
D R
D
R
DD DR
DR RR
3 out of 4 children
will have the dominant trait.
P = 3/4
P = Probability
It’s a fraction!
D = dominant
R = recessive
39. Try It
Parent 1:
Dominant Trait: Straight Thumb (S)
Recessive Trait: Hitchhiker’s Thumb (H)
S HIf Parent 1 has Hitchhiker’s Thumb (HH)
And Parent 2 does not (SH)…
H H
S
H
Parent
2:
SH HH
HH HH
What probability is there that a child will
have hitchhiker’s thumb (the recessive
trait?
3 out of 4 = 3/4
*Dominant traits are not always the
most common.
40. This is how the
body works…
And this is what we
can do…
42. Genes Make You…
But what happens if your body doesn’t
work exactly as it is supposed to?
• Genetic Disorders
– Genetic Disorders result when there is a change in your
genes that changes the way your body functions.
– Sometimes the change can be so large that your body
cannot function.
• Changes can occur at any stage in DNA replication,
mitosis, or meiosis.
43. Mutations
• All genetic disorders are caused by a mutation
• Mutation: A change in the genetic base-code for a protein.
• A mutation can occur at almost any stage in development
– DNA replication ,mitosis, meiosis, chromosome separation.
• Environmental factors can lead to mutations as well.
• Mutations can be beneficial, harmful, or neutral.
+
Horse Donkey
Mule
44. Types of Mutations
Beneficial Mutations: Dark and light skinned people.
Dark skin: + resistant to sunburn
- generate less Vitamin D
Light skin: + generate more Vitamin D
- prone to sunburn
Harmful: Mutations in genes coding for proteins that control
growth; this results in un-controlled cell growth.
***This decreases a person’s chance of survival.
Neither: Attached earlobes
***This does not increase or decrease a person’s chance of
survival.
*Increased survival in sunny
environments, like the equator.
*Increased survival in less
sunny environments.
45. Common Genetic Disorders
Disorder
• Sickle-Cell Anemia
• Down Syndrome
• Lactose Intolerance
• Colorblindness
Mutation
• Change in one base pair
• Chromosomes do not
separate evenly in meiosis
• Gene does not produce
particular protein that digests
sugars in milk
• Multiple genes that allow us
to see color are not coded
for (on X chromosome)
46. Large Changes: Down Syndrome
• Down Syndrome is one of the few genetic disorders
where an individual can survive with an extra
chromosome.
• People with Down Syndrome tend to have large
foreheads and slight mental retardation.
• The extra chromosome can be seen in a
karyotype.
Three copies of
chromosome 21
instead of two.
An individual
with Down Syndrome
47. How Down Syndrome Occurs
Meiosis
Individual with Down
Syndrome gets this cell
from one parent.
•In meiosis, chromosomes do not split
into different cells evenly:
One cell gets 3 chromosomes, while
one cell gets one.
•The individual with three chromosomes
21 will most likely survive, but will have
Down Syndrome.
•The individual with one chromosome 21
will not survive.
Editor's Notes
Emphasize that three nucleotides code for a specific chemical, the amino acid.
An amino acid is not made of nucleotides.
Emphasize genetic effects (blood type) versus environmental effects (eating etc.) .
Nature versus nurture idea.
Genes are not gifts, they enable you to “be.”
Every living thing has genes: from bacteria to plants to humans.