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ch9 vocab
Question | Answer |
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a substance that is prepared from killed or weakend disease-causing agents, including certain bacteria. | vaccine |
able to cause disease | virulent |
is a change in genotype caused when cells take up foreign genetic material | transformation |
a bvirsus that that infects bacteria | bacteriophage |
Bacteriophagetwo strands twidted around each other | double helix |
are subunits that make up DNA | nucleotides |
the five carbon sugar in DNA nucleotidws | deoxyribose |
the rules stating that cytosine pairs with guanine and adenine pairs with thymine in DNA adenine pairs with uracil in RNA | base-pairing rules |
strictness of base -pairing results in two strands | complementary base pair |
the process of making a copy of dna | dna replication |
open the double helix by breaking the hydrogen bonds | dna helicases |
the areas where the double helix seperates | replication forks |
move along each of the dna strands | dna polymerases |