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Ch 10 h bio terms
chapter 10 terms and definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| virulent | a disease causing strain in bacterium |
| transformation | transfer of genetic material from one cell to another cell or one organism to another organism |
| bacteriophage | viruses that infect bacteria |
| nucleotide | in a nucleic acid chain, the subunits made of sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen |
| deoxyribose | the 5 carbon sugar in a DNA nucleotide |
| nitrogenous base | contains nitrogen atoms and carbon atoms and a base |
| purine | nitrogenous bases that have a double ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms, such as guanine or adenine |
| pyramidine | nitrogenous bases that have a single ring of carbon, such as cytosine and thymine |
| base-pairing rules | cytosine on one strand pairs with guanine on the opposite strand, and adenine and thymine pair together |
| complementary base pair | the pairs of bases that bond together |
| base sequence | the order of nitrogenous bases on the DNA strand |