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DNA Chapter 12
DNA gentic engineering
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Biology
10th Grade
03/09/2011

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Term
DNA
Definition
determines the characteristics of a organism, and Deoxyribonucleicacid.
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RNA
Definition
is a copy of DNA that can leave the nuclous.
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Nitrogenous base
Definition
a nitrogen-containing organic compound that has the chemical properties of a base, especially a pyrimidine or purine: Four nitrogen bases are present in a dna molecule.
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Nucleotide
Definition
any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of dna or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil
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Base pairing rule
Definition
example for every G=C and A=T
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Chromatin
Definition
the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus, consisting of dna, RNA, and various proteins, that forms chromosomes during cell division.
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Chromosome
Definition
threadlike structure within the nucleus containing gentic information.
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Gene
Definition
sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait
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Histone
Definition
protein molecule around witch DNA is tightly coiled around.
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DNA polymerase
Definition
enzyme involed in DNA replacation that joins individual nucleotides.
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DNA replication
Definition
replacates DNA.
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RNA polymerase
Definition
enzyme simaler to DNA polymerase.
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Messenger RNA
Definition
RNA molecule that carries copeis of instructions for the assembly of amino acids into the protein from the DNA to the rest of the cell.
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Transfer RNA
Definition
tRNA type o RNA molecule that transfers amino acids to ribosomes during protein systhesis.
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Ribosomal RNA
Definition
Type of rRNA that makes up the major part of ribosomes.
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Transcription
Definition
process in witch part of nucleotide sequence of DNA is copied into a complementary sequence in RNA
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Translation
Definition
Decoding of a mRNA message into polypeptide chain.
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Protein synthesis
Definition
The creation of proteins by cells that uses DNA, RNA and various enzymes.
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Promoter
Definition
have a specific base of sequences
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Terminator sequence
Definition
the stop of a promoter
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codon
Definition
is a sequence of codes
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anticodon loop
Definition
is a complmentary to om
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start codon
Definition
a codon that starts the seqence
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stop codon
Definition
a codon that stops the seqence
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mutation
Definition
two bases that are incorect.
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