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| One of the four nitrogen containing bases present in nucleotides of DNA. |
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| They are the changing factor in a nucleotide. They are either adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), of cytosine (C). |
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| Threadlike structures within cells that contains genes. They coinsist of tight coils of DNA and protein. |
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| The name for the specific pairings of bases in DNA. A always forms with T, while G alwyas pairs with C. |
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| One of the four nitrogen containing bases present in nucleotides of DNA. |
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It is the molecule that carries the blueprints for al forms of life on Earth.
Also known as: deoxyribonucleic acid |
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| Enzymes which pull apart the parental DNA double helix, so that the bases of two DNA strands no longer form base pairs with one another. |
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| An enzyme that ties DNA together. |
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| Enzymes which move along each separated parental DNA strand matching ases n the strand wth complementary free nucleotides. |
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| The process through which the parent cell synthesizes two exact copies of its DNA. |
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| The name for the twisted-ladder structure of DNA. |
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| Nucleotides used to complement one of the parental DNA strands. |
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| The discrete units in which heritable information exists. |
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| One of the four nitrogen containing bases present in nucleotides of DNA. |
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| Four small subunits which compose all DNA. Each sonsists of a phosphate group, a sugar called deoxyribose, and one of four possible nitrogen-containing bases. |
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| semiconservative replication |
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| The process of replicatino in which a new strand of DNA winds with a daughter strand that came form the parent strand, thus "conserving" one parental strand. |
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| The alternating sugar/phosphate pattern which creates backbone for DNA from which the nucleotides protrude. |
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| One of the four nitrogen containing bases present in nucleotides of DNA. |
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