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15 Cards in this Set
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Griffiths Experiment
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Showed that some factor in the strain is still able to change other harmless bacteria into deadly ones.
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Averys Experiment
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concluded that DNA is the genetic material of the cell
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Bacteriophage
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a virus that infects bacteria
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Hershey and Chase
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DNA not proteins are genetic material
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Complementary Base Pairing
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The standard arrangement of bases in nucleotides in relation to their opposite pairing
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Nucleotide
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The basic building block of nucleic acids
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Pyrimidne
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single-ringed structures
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DNA Replication
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The process of copying the DNA molecules
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DNA Polymerase
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enzymes that make the covalent bonds between the nucleotides of the new DNA strand
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RNA
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any nucleotide whose sugar is ribose rather than the deoxyribose of DNA
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Transcription
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It is the process of making a copy of genetic information stored in a DNA strand into a complementary strand of RNA
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translation
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converts nucleic acid language into amino acid language
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codon
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3-base "word", that codes for one amino acid
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double helix
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shape that two linear strands of DNA make when bonded together
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purine
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large double-ring structures
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