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| granular material visible within the nucleus, DNA coiled around proteins |
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| principle that bonds in DNA, can form only between Adenine & Thymine or Guanime & Cytosine |
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| monomer of nucleuc acids made up of 5 carbon sugar phosphate group & notrogenous base |
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| 1 strain of bacteria is changed by gene to otherbacteria |
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| virus that infects bacteria |
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| RNA molecule that carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids to protein from DNA to cell |
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| enzyme that "proof-reads" new DNA strand, checks to see molecules are exact copies of origional DNA |
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| copying process; cell duplicates its DNA |
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| globular protein molecule around which DNA is coiled in chromatin |
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| enzyme like DNA polymerase that binds to DNA strands during transcription |
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| process where part of nucleotide sequences of DNA is copied into compementary sequence in RNA |
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| type of RNA; transfers amino acids to ribosomes during protein synthesis |
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| type of RNA; makes up major part of ribosomes |
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| 3 nucleotide sequence on messenger RNA. codes for single amino acid |
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| expressed sequence of DNA; codes for protein |
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| intervining sequence of DNA; does not code for protein |
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| region of DNA that indicates to an enzyme where to bind to make RNA |
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| mutation that affects single nucleotide usually substituting one for another |
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| change in DNA sequence that affects genetic info |
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| group of 3 bases on + RNA molecule that are complimentary to mRNA codon |
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| decoding of mRNA message into polypeptide chain |
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| region of chromosome in an operon to which the repressor binds when operon is "turned off" |
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| series of genses that control organs & tissues that develop in various parts of embryo |
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| group of genes operating together |
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| mutation that shifts the "reading" frame of the genetic message by insertingor deleting a nucleotide |
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