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ch 9 vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a substance prepared fron killed or weakend pathogens and introduce into a body to produce immunity | vaccine |
| describes a micro-organism or virus that causes disease and that is highly infectious | virulent |
| the transfer of genetic material in the form of dna fragments from one cell to another or from one organism to another | transformation |
| a virus that infects bacteria | bacteriophage |
| the spiral- staircase structure characterstic 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 |
| The rules stating that cytosine pairs with guanine and adenin pairs with thymine in DNA and that adenine pairs with uracil in RNA | base- pairing rules |
| a characteristic of nucleic acids im which the sequence of bases on one strand is paired to 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 molecule | DNA helicase |
| a y shaped point that results when two strands of a dna double helix separates so that the dna molecule can be replicated | replication fork |
| an enzymes that catalyzes the formation of dna replication | DNA polymerase |