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PCR stands for : _____
Polymerase chain reaction
DNA replication starts with the ____ defined by a specific _____
replication origin

nucleotide sequence
DNA polymerase requires a ____ to begin copying
RNA primer
The RNA primer allows the ____ OH to be used by DNA polymerase
3'
Two Y-shaped replication forks are moving in the _____ directions during DNA replication
opposite
1: DNA polymerase adds to new RNA primer to start new DNA fragment

2: Nick sealed by DNA ligase to join new DNA fragment to the growing chain
Your body uses an RNa primer, in the lab we use a ____ primer
DNA
Doing this cuts out the step of ______
removing the primer
Both strands of DNA have to be replicated in the ____ direction
5'--->3'
DNA synthesis of the lagging strand is ______ and works in a ____ fashion
discontinuous

backwards
The Klenow fragment aka
DNA polymerase 1
The Klenow fragment lacks _____ activity so it tends to copy DNA more than degrade it
Nuclease (5-->3)
Klenow denatures _____
easily
In repair replication a ___ primer was used and ____
single

polymerase
Kary Mullis created ______
Polymerase Chain Reaction
You (can/cannot) violate a patent by 1. Extracting DNA from a species and copying it 2. Having purified Thermus aquaticus DNA polyermase 3. Thermocyclers/tubes
can
The only way you can use PCR products and process is if the experimental use is meant for __________
curiosity or philosophical inquiry
PCR will amplify a ______
single target sequence
PCR's use of _____ make it an exponential procedure
two primers
The temperature at which primers will anneal is ______
variable

depending on the primers
1. Denature DNA
2. Anneal Primers
3. Extend Primers
The exponential growth of the ____ product is 2^n
short
The ____ products have linear growth
long
A limit will be approached as _____, _____, _____, _____, _____
DNA begins to anneal to eachother because there is more DNA than enzymes

Loss of enzyme activity

Limiting concentation of enzyme: Not enough enzyme to extend all the primers

Background amplification

If the sites are too far apart (>10 kb)
Polymerase cannot function without a _____ buffer
magnesium
Must have a ___ and ____ primer
forward and reverse
The gene with the "ATG" is called the ____ strand
Watson
The strand with the reverse complement (of ATG) : TAC is the _____ strand
Crick
The forward primer will have an ____ and it identical to whatever your gene sequence is
ATG
Forward primer will bind to the ____ strand
Crick
The primer that binds to the Watson strand has to be designed from the _____ strand
Crick
Watson goes _____
5'--->3'
Crick goes _____
3'--->5'
Oligonucleotides (primers) have greater than 50% _____ content
G-C
Primers are generally placed from _____ a part
150-1000
Do not want primers that can link back onto itself, called ______
hairpins
Do not want primers that can complement each other that can create _____ leading to amplification of the primers instead of the PCR product
primer dimers
The ____ can contain manipulations used for restriction enzyme digestion, his-tags...
5' overhangs
IT is important to know the ____ of your primer for the annealing stp
Melting temperature (Tm)
Tm= _______
(A+T)x2 + (G+C)x4
____ pull a part easier so have a lower Tm
A&T
To get 100% primer bound to target you take your lowest calculated Tm and ______
reduce it by 5 degrees
The primers must be pointed _____ and on ____ strands
towards on another

opposite
The forward primer will bind on the Crick strand to the ___ codon
anti-start
The reverse primer will bind to the ____ strand and amplify towards the ____ codon
template

start
The forward primer will always be the same as the _____ at about 20 nucleotides long
template strand containing Gene of interest
The reverse primer can be created by taking the ____ nucleotide complementing it and writing it in the ___ direction and keep going left
first

forward

AAGGCGCAAGTAG (G.O.I)

CTACTTGCGCCTT (Reverse primer)
Can add an EcoR1 cut site for _____; Can add a his-tag for _____ and if you have a his-tag you must also have a _____; The GC is present at the beginning of the 5' end because _____
restriction enzymes to cut in order to place the GOI into a plasmid

washing the sample over a column and purifying your GOI (affinity chromatography)

Start codon

It is a flanking base needed by restriction enzymes to cut at the restriction point
On the reverse primer you must delete the ___ and move it to after the _____; The Xho1 is _____; Add GC at the end to ___
stop codon, His-tags (so that it will stop making them)

another cut site to a different restriction enzyme

accommodate the restriction enzymes
The manipulations of overhangs will always be at the ____ end
5'
The manipulations of overhangs will always be at the ____ end
5'
The primers designed with EcoR1 and Xho1 will bind to the _____; the product formed will be ____
Gene of interest on the cDNA library

smaller, only the GOI
You are then able to place your product into a ___ using the cut sites and transform the plasmid into bacteria and express the GOI in the cells
plasmid
In overlap Extension PCR cloning you do all the work on the ____
plasmid
In ligation independent cloning you do not use ____ or _____; The ligation will occur through _____
restriction enzymes, ligation

E. coli's DNA ligase
Piecing genes together on gene without doing digestion, ligation or any recombination
Circular Polymerase Extension cloning
In long PCR you ___ the GOI creating more than one gene product, you then _____ to get one product
break up

digest and ligate
In oligonucleotide sequencing you ____ the sequence and use yeast to join the fragments back together
break up

(<100k bp)