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DNA vocab 1
DNA Structure and Replication
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adenine | A (base) |
| Cytosine | C (base) |
| Guanine | G (base) |
| Thymine | T (base) |
| Hydrogen | Complementary base-pairs are held together with ______ bonds |
| Deoxyribose | part of DNA backbone connected to the base (nucleotide part) |
| Phosphate | part of nucleotide and DNA Backbone/ connects two sugars together |
| Purines | Double-ringed bases |
| Pyrimidines | Single-ringed bases |
| Nucleotide | monomer that makes up DNA |
| Helicase | Enzyme that unwinds DNA strands in replication |
| DNAPolymerase | Enzyme that constructs and proofreads the new strands of DNA in replication |
| Complementary | The consistent pairing of A--T and G--C is known as the ________________ base-pairing rules |
| Franklin | The scientist(s) that determined the double helix shape using X-Ray diffraction |
| WatsonandCrick | The scientist(s) that determined the structure of DNA in 1953 |
| doublehelix | The shape that DNA normally exists in |
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