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| Any of a class of enzymes that reduce supercoiling in DNA by breaking and rejoining one or both strands of the DNA molecule |
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| Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) |
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| Technique for rapidly synthesizing large quantities of a given DNA segment that involves separating the DNA into its two complementary strands, binding a primer to each single strand at the end of the given DNA segment where synthesis will start, using DNA polymerase to synthesize two-stranded DNA from each single strand, and repeating the process |
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| The process of constructing a messenger RNA molecule using a DNA molecule as a template with resulting transfer of genetic information to the messenger RNA |
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| The process of synthesizing DNA using RNA as a template and reverse transcriptase as a catalyst |
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| The process of forming a protein molecule at a ribosomal site of protein synthesis from information contained in messenger RNA |
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| Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) |
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| Regulate the acetylation status of nucleosomal histones |
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| Histone Acetyltransferase (HAT) |
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| Enzymes that acetylate conserved lysine amino acids on histone proteins by transferring an acetyl group from acetyl CoA to lysine to form ε-N-acetyl lysine |
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