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Process during which a RNA copy of a gene is made
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Transcription
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Environmental agents that cause mutations
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Mutagens
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Nucleotide triplet in mRNA
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Codon
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The name for the two larger bases- Adenine and guanine
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Purines
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Second stage of gene expression, where amino acids are assembled to make a protein
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Translation
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A single strang nucleic acid, containing uracil, adenine, guanine, and cytosine
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Ribonucleic Acid
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Use of genetic information in DNA to make proteins
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Gene Expression
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Is complementary to the mRNA codons
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Anticodon
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A strain that is disease causing
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Virulent
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The subunit of DNA
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Nucleotides
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The name for the two smaller bases-cytosine, and thymine
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Pyrimidines
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The portions of a gene that get translated
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Exons
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Is the correspondence between nucleotide triplets in DNA and the amino acids in proteins
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Genetic code
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This blocks transcription to be preventing RNA polymerase
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Repressor Protein
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The potions of a gene that are non-coding
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Introns
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When DNA makes an exact copy of itself
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Replication
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genes that are able to move from one chromosome to another
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transpoons
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A process by which a bacteria picks up foreign DNA
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Transformation
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Allow for DNA to be transcribed by binding to the repressor protein
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Iducers
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Watson and Crick found the structure of NA to have this shape
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Double helix
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