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| deoxyribonucleic acid contains the sugar deoxyribose |
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| building block (monomer) of nucleic acid polymers |
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single or double ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms
with attached functional groups,
found in nucleic acids |
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| single-ring nitrogenous base |
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| double-ring nitrogenous base |
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| when the trait from one bacteria crosses over into other bacteria. DNA |
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| package of nucleic acid wrapped in a protein coat that must use a host cell's machinery to reproduce itself |
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| virus that infects bacteria; also called a "phage" |
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| enzymes that make the covalent bonds between the nucleotides of the new DNA strand |
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Thymine Adenine Guanine Cytosine
(Uricil RNA) |
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| sequence of nucleic acids in RNA is used to direct the production of a chain of specific amino acids |
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| three letter for an amino acid |
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| the physical and chemical agents that cause mutations |
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| the enzyme that links the RNA nucleotides together |
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| internal noncoding region in RNA transcript |
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| coding region in RNA transcript |
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| process by which the introns are removed from RNA transcripts and the remaining exons are joined together |
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| RNA that translates the three-letter codons of mRNA to amino acids |
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| in tRNA, a triplet of nitrogenous bases that is complementary to a specific codon in mRNA |
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| RNA component of ribosomes |
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