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Bio. Exam
page 4 of study guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Virus | not a living thing, it thrives on a host cell |
| HIV cocktail | combination of drugs to treat HIV |
| Vaccine | heat killed strand of virus injection |
| stem cell | "master" cell - first cell created when sperm meets the egg |
| Griffith | worked with mice and pneumonia bacteria to |
| Avery,McCarty,McLeod | discovered that DNA was the transforming factor |
| Hershey and Chase | worked with the DNA molecule and protein coat |
| Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins | took the first X-ray pictures of DNA |
| transcription | a molecule of DNA is copied onto a complementary strand of RNA |
| translation | a message carried by mRNA is decoded into a polypeptide chain |