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