Unit 5

Front

Adenine

Back

The base that pairs with Thymine in DNA

Front

Guanine

Back

The base that pairs with Cytosine in DNA

Front

Cytosine

Back

The base that pairs with Guanine with DNA

Front

Thymine

Back

The nucleotide that hydrogen bonds with the nucleotide adenine in DNA.

Front

Deoxyribose

Back

A five-carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides

Front

Hydrogen bond

Back

Weak attraction between a hydrogen atom and another atom

Front

Bacteriophage

Back

A virus that infects bacteria

Front

Nucleotide

Back

Sugar, phosphate group, base

Front

Double helix

Back

Two strands of nucleotides wound about each other; structure of DNA

Front

Gene

Back

A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait