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12 Cards in this Set
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deoxyribonucleic acid
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mysterious substance in the nucleus of a cell |
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Watson and Crick
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deduced the actual structure of DNA |
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gene |
the part of the DNA molecule that controls a particular trait |
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chromosomes |
contains one molecule of DNA
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DNA |
tightly coiled bundle that are the chromosomes that are visible during mitosis and meiosis |
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deoxyribose in DNA and ribose in RNA |
the difference between DNA and RNA |
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double helix
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what scientists refer to the double spiral in DNA as |
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guanine, cytosine, adenine, thymine |
four different types of bases in a DNA molecule |
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RNA |
consists of only one strand instead of two |
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uracil
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RNA uses a base |
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replication |
process by which DNA makes a copy |
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transcription |
the cell copies the information contained in the DNA into messenger RNA |
