Chapter 12 DNA and RNA Vocab

the process by which genetic information is passed from one organism to another

• transformation

• transcription

• tRNA

• mRNA

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the virus that infects bacteriophage

• nucleotides

• bacteriophage

• chromatin

• histone

units of DNA; they are made up of a 5 carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base

• gene

• nucleus

• nucleotide

• nucleosome

the principle that hydrogen bonds can only form between certain bases; Adenine and Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine

• base pairing

• chargaffs rule

• theory

• hypothesis

 DNA and protein tightly packed together within Eukaryotes 

• DNA polymerase

• Genes

• Histones

• Chromatin

proteins that wrap around the DNA

• RNA

• Histones

• Replication

• Genes

the process of replicating DNA 

• Synthesis

• Replication

• DNA

• Transcription

the principal enzyme involved in DNA replication, joins individual nucleotides to produce a DNA molecule, “proofreads each DNA strand.”

• DNA polymerase

• RNA Polymerase

• Enzyme

• Polyploidy-

coded instructions that control the production of proteins within the cell

• DNA

• Genes

• RNA

• chromatid

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The RNA molecules that carry copies of these instructions

• mRNA

• rRNA

• tRNA