Description

Process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene from another strain of bacteria.
Virus that infects bacteria
Monomer of nucleic acids made up of a 5-carbon sugar
Principle that bonds in DNA can form only between adenine and thymine + guanine and cytosine
Granular material visible within the nucleus
Protein molecule around which DNA is tightly coiled in chromatin
Copying process by which a cell duplicates its dna
An enzyme involved in DNA replication that joins individual nucleotides to produce a dna molecule
Sequence of dna that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait
Rna molecule that carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids into proteins from dna to the rest of the cell
Type of rna that makes up the major part of ribosomes
Type of rna molecule that transfers amino acids to ribosomes during protein synthesis
Process in which part of the nucleotide sequence of dna is copied into a complementary sequence of rna
Enzyme similar to dna polymerase that binds to dna and separates the dna strands during transcription
Region of dna that indicates to an enzyme where to bind to make rna
Sequence of DNA that is not involved in coding for a protein
Expressed sequence of DNA; codes for a protein
Three - nucleotide sequence on messenger RNA that codes for a single amino acid
Decoding of an mrna message into a polypeptide chain
Group of three bases on a trna molecule that are complementary to an mrna codon
Changes in a dna sequence that affects genetic information
Gene mutation involving changes in one or a few nucleotides
Mutation that shifts the “reading” frame of the genetic message by inserting or deleting a nucleotide
Condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes
Group of genes operating together
Process in which cells become specialized in structure and function
Series of genes that controls the differentiation of cells and tissues in an embryo

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