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Chapter 13 Vocabulary
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Biology
9th Grade
02/15/2013

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gene
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the most basic physical unit of heredity; a segment of nucleic acids that codes for a functional unit of RNA and/or a protein
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DNA
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deoxyribonucleic acid, the material that contains the information that determines inherited characteristics
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nucleotide
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an organic compound that consists of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous base; the basic building block of a nucleic-acid chain
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purine
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a nitrogenous base that has a double-ring structure; one of the two general categories of nitrogenous bases found in DNA and RNA; either adenine or guanine
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pyrimidine
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a nitrogenous base that has a single-ring structure; one of the two general categories of nitrogenous bases found in DNA and RNA; thymine, cytosine, or uracil
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DNA replication
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the process of making a copy of DNA
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DNA helicase
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an enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix during DNA replication
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DNA polymerase
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an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of the DNA molecule
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RNA
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ribonucleic acid, a natural polymer that is present in all living cells and that plays a role in protein synthesis
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gene expression
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the manifestation of the genetic material of an organism in the form of specific traits
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transcription
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the process of forming a nucleic acid by using another molecule as a template; particularly the process of synthesizing RNA by using one strand of a DNA molecule as a templat
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translation
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the portion of protein synthesis that takes place at ribosomes and that uses the codons in mRNA molecules to specify the sequence of amino acids in polypeptide chains
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codon
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in DNA and mRNA, a three-nucleotide sequence that encodes an amino acid or signifies a start signal or a stop signal
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