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First Aid Biochemistry USMLE

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show PKU  
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show NADH increase prevents gluconeogenesis by shunting pyruvate and oxaloacetate to lactate and malate  
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2 year old girl has increase in abdominal girth, failure to thrive and skin and hair depigmentation - what is the diagnosis   show
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show B3 (pellagra)  
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show Gilberts syndrome  
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show Alkaptonuria  
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show Familial hypercholesterolemia, lDL receptor  
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Condensed by negatively charged DNA looped twice around positively charged H2a, H2b, H3 and H4 histones (nucleosome bead)   show
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show H1 histone  
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show Heterochromatin  
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Less condensed, transcriptionally active chromatin   show
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Name purines   show
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show C, T, UCUT Pye  
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show Purines  
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show Pyrimidines  
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Which nucleotide has a ketone   show
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Which nucleotide has methyl   show
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Deamination of cytosine makes _   show
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Uracil is found in _ Thymine is found in _   show
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show GC (3 H bonds), AT is weaker (2 H bonds)  
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show Increases  
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Nucleotides are linked by _   show
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show TransItion (identical)  
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show TransVersion (conVersion between types)  
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4 features of genetic code   show
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Name type of mutation - same amino acid, often base change in 3d position of codon tRNA wobble)   show
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show Missence mutation  
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show Nonsense mutation  
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Name type of mutation - change resulting in misreading of all nucleotides downstream, usually resulting in a truncated protein   show
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show Single origin of replication - continuous DNA synthesis on leading strand and discontinuous (okazaki fragments) on lagging strand  
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show Primase makes RNA PRIMER on which DNA polymerase III can initiate replication  
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Elongates the chain by adding deoxynucleotides to the 3 end until it reaches primer of preceding fragment   show
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Name enzyme that degrades RNA primer   show
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Has 5'-3' synthesis and proofreads with 3'-5' exonuclease   show
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show DNA topoisomerases  
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show Xeroderma pigmentosum (skin sensitivity to UV light)Ataxia-telangiectasia (x rays)Blooms syndrome (radiation)Fanconis anemia (cross linking agents)  
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Defective excision repair such as uvr ABC endonuclease. Results in inability to repair thymidine dimers, which form in DNA when exposed to UV light. Associated with dry skin and with melanoma and other cancersInheritance pattern   show
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show 5'-->3'  
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