Summary: The Lego Bricks Of Life

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  • 1 What's in your favorite snack?

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  • What is a structural isomer?

    The same molecular formule, but atoms are bonded differently (glucose - fructose - galactose).
  • Difference between alpha and beta glucose?

    OH group on the opposite side as CH2OH --> alpha
    OH group on the same side as CH2OH --> beta
  • What is the Fischer projection?

    2D projection of a linear structure
  • Why are slow sugars better?

    Steady glucose levels, natural sugars like fructose and lactose.
  • Why are fast sugars bad?

    Refined sugars from sugar cane or sugar beets, insulin and blood sugar levels skyrocket.
  • 2 The most beautiful experiment in bioligy

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  • Two sugar-phosphate backbones of the double helix are not equally spaced from one another

    Leads to grooves.
    major (wider) groove
    minor (narrower) groove
  • What is semi conservative?

    Daughter strands have 1 original strand
  • What does topoisomerase I do?

    Unwinds the double helix, most often removes a supercoil by cutting the DNA, unlooping the DNA and afterwards pasting it together again.
  • Function of RNA primer?

    Making one stranded DNA into 2 strands, DNA polymerase can now bind.
  • What are Okazaki fragments?

    DNA replicated in the 5' to 3' way, otherwise the DNA cannot be repaired and chance on mutations is high.

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