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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asubstance prepared from killed or weakend ppathogenes and introuduced into a body of produce immunity | Vaccine |
| describes a microganism or virus that causes disease and that is highly infections | virulent |
| the transfer of genetic material in the form of DNA fragments from one cell to another or form one organism to another | Transformation |
| a virus that infects bacteria | Bacteriophage |
| the spirl-stair case structure chararcteristic of the Dna molecule | double helix |
| in a nucleic-acid chain, a subunit that consits of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrgenous base | nucleotide |
| a five-carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides | deoxyribose |
| the rules stating that cytosine pairs with guanin and adenine pairs with thmine in DNA and that adenine pairs with uracil in RNA | base paring rules |
| a characteristic of nuleic acids in which the sequence of bases on one strand in paired to the sequence of bases on the other | complementary base pairing |
| the process of making a copy of DNA | DNA replication |
| an enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix during DNA replication | DNA helicase |
| a y shaped point that results when the two strandsof 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 |