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Biology AKH
Ch. 9 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vaccine | a substance that is prepared from killed or weakened disease-causing agents, including certain bacteria |
| virulent | able to cause disease |
| transformation | a change in genotype caused when cells take up foreign genetic material |
| bacteriophage | a virus that infects bacteria |
| double helix | two strands twisted around eachother like a winding staircase |
| nucleotides | the subunits that make up DNA |
| deoxyribose | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| base-pairing rules | rules stating that cytosine pairs with guanine and adenine pairs with thymine in DNA, and that adenine pairs with uracil in RNA |
| complementary base pairs | strictness of base-pairing results in 2 strands |
| DNA replication | process of making a copy of DNA |
| DNA helicases | open the double helix by breaking the hydrogen bonds that ink the complementary nitrogen bases between two strands |
| replication forks | areas where the double helix seperates |
| DNA polymerases | replication fork enzymes |