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Lecture 11
Important Terms
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
10/09/2011

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Transcription
Definition
Converting DNA into RNA
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Translation
Definition
Ribosomes reading the code of mRNA to synthesize proteins
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Nucleoside
Definition
A purine or pyrimidine covalently linked to a sugar
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Template Strand
Definition
Strand of DNA used during transcription
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Non-Template Strand
Definition
Strand of DNA not used during transcription
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Promoter
Definition
A DNA region containing specific gene regulatory elements to which RNA polymerase binds for the initiation of transcription
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Enhancer
Definition
A set of gene regulatory elements in eukaryotic genomes that can act over distances up to thousands of base pairs from a gene
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Intron
Definition
Non-coding sequences of DNA
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Exon
Definition
Coding sequences of DNA
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Splicing
Definition
Removal of introns from pre-mRNA to create mRNA
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