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Voc..1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Deoxyribose | A five-carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides |
| Vaccine | A substance prepared from killed or weakened pathogens and introduced into a body to produce immunity |
| Virulent | Describes a microorganism or virus that causes disease and that is highly infectious |
| Transformation | The transfer of genetic material in the form a DNA fragments from one cell to another or from one organism to another |
| Bacteriophage | A virus that infects a bacteria |
| Double Helix | The spiral-staircase structure characteristics of the DNA molecule |
| Nucleotide | In a nucleic acid chain, a subunit that consists of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base. |
| Base-Pairing Rules | The rules stating that cytosine pairs with guanine and adenine pairs with thymine in DNA, and that adenine pairs with uracil in RNA |
| Complementary Base Pairing | A characteristic of nucleic acids in which the sequence of bases on one strand is paired to the sequence of base on the other |
| DNA Replication | The process of making a copy of DNA |
| DNA helicase | An enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix during DNA replications |
| Replication Fork | A Y-shaped point that results when the two strands of a DNA double helix separate so that the DNA molecule can be replicated |
| DNA Polymerase | An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of the DNA molecule |