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What is transformation?
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Process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain of bacteria.
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What is bacteriophage?
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Virus that infects bacteria.
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What is a nucleotide?
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A unit that makes up a long molecule of DNA.
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What is base pairing?
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A principle that bonds in DNA can form only between adenine and thymine and between guanine and cytosine.
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What is Chromatin?
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Tightly packed substance consisting of DNA.
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What is histone?
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Protein that is inside of DNA.
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What is replication?
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When a cell divides itself and then duplicates its DNA.
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What is DNA polymearse?
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The principle enzyme involved in DNA replication.
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What is a gene?
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Coded DNA instructions that control the production of proteins within the cell.
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What is messenger RNA?
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The RNA molecule that carries copies of instructions.
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What is ribosomal RNA?
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Location in which the construction of a protein occurs.
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What is transfer RNA?
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RNA that transfers each amino acid to the ribosome as it is specified by the messages in mRNA.
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What is transcription?
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The process in which RNA molecules are produced.
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What is RNA polymearse?
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An enzyme required for transcription to take place.
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What is a promotor?
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Regions of DNA that enzymes bind to.
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