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How does a retroviruse reproduce?
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Reverse Transcriptase is vital for RNA retroviruses to replicate
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The viral protein P is used for what?
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Gag is the gene for envelope proteins
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Which of the following can be directly translated?
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+ve sense RNA
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-ve sense RNA
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What protein converts viral genomes into a version host cells can transcribe?
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RNA dependent RNA polymerase
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DNA dependent RNA polymerase
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DNA dependent DNA polymerase
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RNA dependent DNA polymerase
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The Transcriptosome is the cell repetoire of proteins
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What is the role of enhancers?
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To make proteins more efficient
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To make transcription of a gene more likely
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To increase cell division
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Name the types of enhances possible
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Upstream
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Adjactent
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Downstream
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Internal
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Introns can make up to 2% of the gene
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Assuming the middle segment is an intron, what is found at the 5' and 3' splice sites of the intron?
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3'- G-T
5'- Pyrimidine tract
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5' - G-U
3' - Pyrimidine tract & A-G
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5' - Pyrimidine tract & A-T
3' G-A
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How is the 5' intron splice site cleaved?
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Hydroxyl attack by an adenine
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Hydroxyl attack by a pyrimidine from the 5' exon splice site
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The 5' exon splice site attacks the 3' intron splice site
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The 5' is cleaved and the intron loops on itself- what removes the intron totally?
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The 5' exon attacks the 3' splice site
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The 3' exon attacks the 5' splice site
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The 3' exon attacks itself
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What is the roles of snRNA?
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Twintrons are introns within introns
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Which is spliced out first?
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GpG islands are found near transcriptionally inactive human genes
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Name the two theories concerning introns
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What does snoRNA stand for?
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Small nuclear RNA
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Small nullifying RNA
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Small nucleolear RNA
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snoRNA causes RNA to be acetylated
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SnoRNA binds to the RNA to be modified
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What can SnoRNA binding lead to?
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The modification of bases
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The destruction of the mRNA
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The replication of the mRNA
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There are few miRNA's, but they are very large
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What is the role of miRNA
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mRNA silencing
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Prevent mRNA degredation
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Inhibit transcription
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Once the miRNA is transcribed, what structures form?
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Cruciforms
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Holliday junctions
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Stem-loop junctions
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What enzyme have these miRNA precursors NOT been cut by?
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Once complete, where do these miRNA structures do?
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Binds to 5' end of mRNA to prevent ribosome binding
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Bind to region between polyA tail and gene, causing cleavage of polyA tail
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Bind in centre and cause mRNA looping
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siRNA stands for Short Interfering RNA
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What is the main role of siRNA?
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Protection against RNA viruses
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Protection against oncogenes
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Protection against bacteria
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Where and to what does siRNA bind?
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mRNA of viral genome
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mRNA of bacterial genome
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mRNA of human genome
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On transcribing region
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On poly-A tail
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siRNA binds to mRNA in a double stranded form
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Which of the following could be used as a gene therapy?
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This RNA gene therapy works by making a dsRNA version of a gene in the cell; this will be cleaved to siRNA which will destroy ALL mRNA for that gene