Gene Therapy
It is the most common vector used in gene therapy
What are viruses?
This is what has to happen to a polypeptide in order to become a functional protein
What is fold it?
It is the enzyme used to add bases to the RNA strand
What is RNA Polymerase?
It is when genes travel together on the same chromosome such as red hair and freckle genes
What are linked genes?
It is the primary function of rRNA?
What is to build ribosomes?
It is the animal used to test gene therapy for blindness
What is a dog?
It is the term for all folded polypeptides that form structures
What are functional proteins?
It is the template code of DNA that codes for the start codon
What is TAC ?
It is a different form of the same gene
What is an allele?
Proteins that block other proteins from being produced
What are inhibitor proteins?
They act as "biological scissors" to cut out the desired gene
What are restriction enzymes?
It is the functional protein found in nails, claws, and hooves
What is Keratin?
It is the site of transcription
What is the nucleus?
Genes are codes for making these macromolecules
What are proteins?
Any mutation that changes the amino acids in the chain
What are missense mutations?
It is a ring of code found in a bacterium that can be used also as a non-viral vector in gene therapy
What is a plasmid?
Hemoglobin is this type of protein structure
What is Quaternary Structure?
It is how the transcribed mRNA gets to the ribosomes
What is through a nuclear pore?
It is the point mutation that causes sickle cell in the hemoglobin gene
What is a substitution mutation?
It is the pH that promotes the production of proteases in the stomach to break down proteins
What is low pH or acidic pH??
Those with the gene mutation causing Sickle Cell have a natural immunity to this global killer disease
What is Malaria?
This protein found in muscle cells is an example of a Tertiary Structure protein
What is myoglobin?
It is strand of DNA that is used to create mRNA
What is the coding strand?
It is caused by a nonsense mutation in the CFTR gene
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
Parkinson's and Alzheimer patients have tangles of this type of protein found in brain cells
What are amyloid proteins?