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transformatio
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process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene from another strain or bacteria
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nucleotide
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monomer of nucleic acids made up of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base
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base-paring
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principle that bonds in DNA can form only btween adenine and thymine and between guanine and cytosine
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chromotain
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granular materialvisable within the nucleus, consist of tighly coiled proteins
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histone
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globular protein molecule around which DNA is tighly coiled in a chromtain
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replication
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copying process by which a cell duplicates its DNA
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DNA polymerase
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enzyme that proofreads new DNA strands, helping to ensure that each molecule is a nearly perfect copy
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Gene
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sequence of of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait
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