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| Rapid phase of human growth during puberty |
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| Describing a smooth growth pattern |
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| Reliable indicator of growth |
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| Moulting of skin by an insect to allow its body length to increase |
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| Hard inelastic skin preventing continuous increase in length of an insect’s body |
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| Unreliable indicator of growth |
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| Rapid phase of human growth during early childhood |
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| Describing a continuous growth pattern |
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| S-shaped graph showing an organism’s four periods of growth |
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| Process of cell specialisation involving the selective switching off or on of certain genes |
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| Protein molecule which acts as a biological catalyst |
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| Molecule which prevents a repressor molecule from blocking an operon |
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| Sum of all the chemical reactions occuring within a living organism |
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| Substance that takes part in a metabolic process by being the produce of one enzyme and the substrate of another |
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| A change in an organism’s genetic material |
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| Region of DNA which acts as a site for attachment |
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| Genetically inherited condition in which the sufferer lacks the enzyme needed to convert phenylalanine to tyrosine |
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| Region of DNA which codes for a repressor molecule |
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| Molecule coded for by a regulator gene which can bind with an operator gene |
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| Region of DNA which codes for a function protein (e.g an enzyme) |
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