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49 Cards in this Set
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a hatred or dislike
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antipathy n.
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1.lack of feeling, energy, or interest
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apathy n.
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the ability to identify with someone else and understand that person's situation of feelings
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empathy n.
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1.referring to pathology, the study of disease
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pathological adj.
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a feeling of sympathy; a quality that arouses pity or tenderness
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pathos n.
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hatred of marriage
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misogamy n.
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hatred of women
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misogyny n.
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sever diarrhea
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dysentery n.
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a serious difficulty learning to read in the usual way
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dyslexia n.
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to crave or desire, especially somehting belonging to someone else
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covet tr.V
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greed;avarice
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cupidity n.
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self-satisfied; smug
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complacent adj.
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impossible to calm or appease
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implacable adj.
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to calm; to pacify; to appease
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placate v.
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showing calmness, peacefulness, or composure
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placid adj.
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substance prepared from killed or weakened pathogens and intorduced into a body to produce immunity
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vaccine
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referring to the deadliness of a disease-causing agent
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virulent
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the transfer of genetic material form one organism to another; first observed by Griffith
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transformation
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virus that infects bacteria
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bacteriophage
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spiral-staircase structure characteristic of the DNA molecule
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double helix
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subunit of nucleic acids consisting of a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and a phosphate group
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nucleotide
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five-carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides
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deoxyribose
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the rule stating tha tin DNA adenine on one strand always pairs with a thymine on the opposite strand and guanine on one strand always pairs with a cytosine on the opposite strand
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base-pairing rules
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charachteristic of nucleic acidds in which the sequence of bases on one strand determines the sequence of bases on the other
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complementary
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the process of making a copy of DNA
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DNA replication
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enzyme that breaks the hydrogen bonds between bases during DNA replication
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DNA helicase
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a Y-shaped point that results when a double helix of DNA separates so that it can be copied
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replication fork
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enzyme that catalyzes the replication of DNA by adding complementary nucleotides
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DNA polymerase
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a type of nucleic acid involved in protein synthesis
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ribonucleic acid
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nitrogen-containing base of RNA complementary to adenine when RNA base pairs with DNA
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uracil
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stage of protein synthesis in which the information in DNA for making a protein is transferred to an RNA molecule
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transcription
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stage of gene expression in which the information in mRNA is used to make a protein
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translation
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two-stage processing of information encoded in DNA to produce proteins
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gene expression
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enzyme that adds and links complementary RNA nucleotides during transcription
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RNA polymerase
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RNA copy of a gene used as a blueprint for the making of a protein during translation
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messanger RNA
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a three-nucleotide sequence in DNA or mRNA that encodes an amino acid or signifies a stop signal
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codon
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sequence of nucleotides that specifies the amino acid sequence of a protein
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genetic code
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RNA molecule that temporarily carries a specific amino acid to a ribosome during translation
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transfer RNA
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a three-nucleotide sequence on tRNA that recognizes a complementary codon on mRNA
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anticodon
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type of RNA molecule that plays a structural role in ribosomes
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ribosomal RNA
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region of DNA that controls RNA olymerase's access to a set of genes with related functions
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operator
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segment of DNA that controls gene regulation in a set of genes iwth related functions in prokaryotes
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operon
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gene system with a prometer; an operator gene, and three structural genes tht control lactose metabolism
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lac operon
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protein that binds to the operator in an operon to switch off transcription
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repressor
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segment of mRNA transcribed from eukaryotic DNA but removed before translation of mRNA into a protein
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intron
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sequence of nucleotides on a gene that gets transcribed and translated
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exon
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mutation in which one or just a few nucleotides in a gene are changed
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point mutation
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sequence of nucleotides on a gene that gets transcribed and translated
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exon
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mutation in which one or just a few nucleotides in a gene are changed
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point mutation
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