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DNA

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Nucleus acid that contains the genetic instructions used in development and functioning of all known living organisms with the exception of some viruses

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Protein

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Organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and folded into a globular form

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Protein folding

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Physical process by which polypeptides fold into its characteristic and functional three dimensional structure from a random coil

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Biomaterials

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Materials existing in biological systems or generated synthetically in order to interact with biological systems

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Central dogma

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The idea that genetic information flows from DNA sequence to RNA sequence to protein sequence

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