Genetics of Mutation: who am I?

Spontaneous

100

Just like driving, I'm faster when I'm going in this direction.

Forward mutation

200

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but X-rays break these.

Sugar-phosphate backbone

300

I sunbathe too long, T-T.  That's what happened to me.

UV light caused thymine dimer

400

I can turn a C, into U by doing this.

Deamination

500

My arms are just so twisted, I can't grab my right partner any more.

Tautomerization

Gangsta

100

Water, water every where! Let's take some OH out of the H2O...or where ever there are OHs!

Hydroxyltaing agents

200

What? NH2? Why are you talking to me about organic chemistry man? I'm gonna take you out!

Deaminating agents

300

Dude! I'm telling ya! Uracil's my bro, man! You know what I mean?

Base analogs (bromouracil)

400

By adding an ethyl group to a base, I can change how it bonds with others.

Alkylating agents

500

If I get inserted into DNA, I can cause deletion or insertion.

Intercalators

Fix Me

100

I fix things that are missing NH2

Base excision repair

200

I'm the glue that ends all.

Ligase

300

Hi.  Are you GATC? I'm gonna mark your A!

Adenine methylase

400

My job is to remove chunks of nucleotides once they have been cut.

DNA exonucleases

500

We are responsible for cutting DNA backbones when something goes wrong.

DNA endonucleases

Why Me?

100

I lost a whole chunk from my DNA!

Deletion

200

I used to be an A, now I'm just average C.

Transversion substitution

300

I used to have an A. But now I got nothing because this happened to me.

Depurination

400

If I have more than 200 CGGs ,I will have this too.  Not sure if it's a good thing though.

Fragile X syndrome

500

I'm flipped out! Thai people would say "from front of the hand to back of the hand".

Inversion mutation

Test Me

100

They tested whether mutation occurs randomly or due to physiological response.

Salvador Luria and Max Delbruck

200

Velvet cloths are used to make these.

Replica Plates

300

I'm an equivalent of a diet with just rice and fish sauce.

Minimum media

400

I need additional food because I can't produce all of my necessary amino acids.  I'm what is called_______.

Auxotroph

500

Without me, cells cannot produce their own Ornithine, which is a precursor for the amino acid Arginine.

Acetylornithinase