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| twisted ladder shap of DNA, formed by two nucleotide strands twisted around each other |
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| short strand of DNA made discontinuously in small segments in the 3' to 5' direction by DNA polymerase |
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| repeating subunit of chromatin fibers, consisting of DNA coiled around histones |
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| semiconservative replication |
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| method of DNA replication where parental strands separate, act as templates, and produce molecules of DNA with one parental DNA strand and one new DNA strand |
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| enzyme that catalyzes synthesis of new DNA molecules |
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