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Process during which a RNA copy of a gene is made
Transcription
Environmental agents that cause mutations
Mutagens
Nucleotide triplet in mRNA
Codon
The name for the two larger bases- Adenine and guanine
Purines
Second stage of gene expression, where amino acids are assembled to make a protein
Translation
A single strang nucleic acid, containing uracil, adenine, guanine, and cytosine
Ribonucleic Acid
Use of genetic information in DNA to make proteins
Gene Expression
Is complementary to the mRNA codons
Anticodon
A strain that is disease causing
Virulent
The subunit of DNA
Nucleotides
The name for the two smaller bases-cytosine, and thymine
Pyrimidines
The portions of a gene that get translated
Exons
Is the correspondence between nucleotide triplets in DNA and the amino acids in proteins
Genetic code
This blocks transcription to be preventing RNA polymerase
Repressor Protein
The potions of a gene that are non-coding
Introns
When DNA makes an exact copy of itself
Replication
genes that are able to move from one chromosome to another
transpoons
A process by which a bacteria picks up foreign DNA
Transformation
Allow for DNA to be transcribed by binding to the repressor protein
Iducers
Watson and Crick found the structure of NA to have this shape
Double helix