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Acceleration Bio
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| True Breeding | self pollination leads to the same variety |
| Hybridization | breeding of two different varieties |
| Allele | variants in a gene |
| Homozygous | organism having a pair of identical alleles for a character |
| Heterozygous | organism having two different alleles for a gene |
| Phenotype | organism's appearance |
| Genotype | organism's genetic makeup |
| Griffith's Experiment | Rat bacteria experiment |
| Hershey-Chase Experiment | Virus and bacteria with radioactive DNA to tell the difference between protein and DNA |
| Chargaff's Rules | Base-pairing rules |
| Helicase | an enzyme that untwists the double helix at the replication fork separating the 2 old strands |
| Single-stand binding protein | line up along the unpaired DNA, holding them apart |
| George Beadle and Edward Tatum | mutants of a bread mold |