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Bio vocab (morgan)
Biology vocab for mrs. morgan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vaccine | a substance prepared from killed or wekaned 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 pf genetic material in the form of DNA fragments from one cell to another or from one organism to another. |
| Bacteriophage | A virus that infects bacteria (lol) |
| Double helix | The spiral-staircase characteristics of the dna moelcule. |
| Nucelotide | In a nucleic acid chain, a subunit that conists of a sugar, a phosphate and a nitrogenous base. |
| Deoxyribose | A five carbon sugar that is a component of NDA nucleotides |
| 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 Pair | A characteristic of nucleic acids in which the sequence of bases on one strand is paired to the sequence of bases on the other. lol |
| DNA replication | The process of making a copy of DNA. |
| DNA helicase | An enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix during DNA replication |
| Replication fork | A Y-shaped point that results when the two strands of a DNA double helix seperate so that the DNA moelcule can be replicated. |
| DNA polymerase | An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of the DNA molecule |
| KRIS IS | SEXY. (: your welcome . |