Cornell University BIOG 1105-1106
Unit 1: Demos

Objective 3:

Can You Make DNA? Play the Double Helix game and find out!

Objective 4:

Does DNA have an overall charge?
Centromere Sequence

Objective 6:

How is DNA replicated?
Leading Strand Replication animation
DNA Replication Review animation

Objective 10:

Okazaki fragments
Synthesis of the Lagging Strand animation

Objective 15:

Can you control the cell cycle?  Play the Cell Cycle game and find out!
Cell cycle clock and cancer
Cell surface changes during the cell cycle

Objective 17b:

3 ways eukaryotic and prokaryotic chromosomes differ

Objective 18:

Slides

Objective 22:

What is a tetrad?

Objective 23:

Asexual reproduction
Sexual reproduction

Objective 24:

Slides - oogenesis in Ascaris

Objective 25:

Slides - stages of meiosis / mitosis

Eukaryotic vs Prokaryotic Chromosomes

HOW DO THE CHROMOSOMES OF PROKARYOTIC CELLS DIFFER FROM THOSE OF EUKARYOTIC CELLS?

  1. Except in the mitochondria and other organelles, eukaryotic chromosomes are linear where as prokaryotic chromosomes are circular.
  2. Eukaryotes typically have many chromosomes, whereas prokaryotes have only a single chromosome.
  3. Eukaryotic chromosomal DNA in the nucleus is wound on nucleosome cores whereas prokaryotic DNA is “naked”—i.e., there are no nucleosomes or other proteins on which the DNA is wound.
  4. Most eukaryotic cells are diploid, receiving a set of chromosomes from each parent. Thus their chromosomes occur in homologous pairs, each consisting of one chromosome from each parent bearing basically the same genes in the same order. Prokaryotes are haploid; their single circular chromosome is unpaired.
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