front 1 Why is prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light damaging to cells? | back 1 because when DNA absorbs UV radiation at 254nm, the energy is used to form new covalent bonds between adjacent pyramidine dimers which distort the DNA molecule and interfere with DNA replication and transcription |
front 2 Pyramidine dimers (3)
| back 2 1. cytosine-cytosine
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front 3 How does E. coli bacteria perform UV light damage repair? (2) | back 3 1. It performs photoreactivation (light repair)
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front 4 photoreactivation (also known as light repair) | back 4 the repair enzyme, DNA photolyase, is activated by visible light (340-400nm) and simply monomoerizes the dimer by reversing the original reaction |
front 5 excision repair (involves 4 enzymes) | back 5 1. The thymine dimer distorts the sugar-phosphate backbone of the strand.
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front 6 Why is UV light limited? | back 6 because it penetrates glass and plastic poorly |
front 7 3 bacteria used in lab and their correlation to UV light | back 7 1. Bacillus - spore formers
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