DNA Vocabulary-2024

Twisted ladder shape formed by the 2 nucleotide strands of DNA that are twisted together

• Double Helix

• Double Stranded

• Single Helix

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid

The process in which DNA makes an EXACT copy of itself

• Translation

• DNA Replication

• Nucleotides

• Transformation

An enzyme that catalyzes (speeds up) the synthesis (creation) of new DNA molecules

• Helicase

• Ligase

• DNA Polymerase

• Nitrogeneous Base

The subunit of a nucleic acid formed from a simple sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base

• Hydrogen Bond

• Nucleotide

• Nitrogen Base

• Adenine

There are 4 found in DNA and are adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine

• Nitrogen Bases

• Hydrogen Bonds

• Phosphates

• Deoxyribose Sugars

A double ringed purine nitrogen base in DNA that bonds only with thymine

• Adenine

• Thymine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

A double ringed purine nitrogen base in DNA that bonds only with cytosine

• Adenine

• Thymine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

A single ringed pyrimidine nitrogen base in DNA that bonds only with adenine

• Adenine

• Thymine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

A single ringed pyrimidine nitrogen base in DNA that bonds only with guanine

• Adenine

• Thymine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

A double ringed nitrogen base in DNA: examples are adenine and guanine

• Purine

• Pyrimidine

• Sugar

• Phosphate