DNA-RNA vocabulary Flashcards

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Chloroplast

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An organelle in the cells of plants and some other organisms that captures energy from sunlight and changes it to an energy from that cells can use in make food.

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Double helix

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a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis, especially that in the structure of the DNA molecule.

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Nitrogen bases

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Molecules that contain nitrogen and other elements.

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Adenine

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One types of nitrogen bases in the DNA. It is identified by the capital letter A. It forms one of the hunts and is pained with thymine and is essential fir replication.

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Thymine

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One types of nitrogen bases in the DNA. It identified by the capital T.nit forms one of the rungs and is pared with adenine and is essential for replication.

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Guanine

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One types of nitrogen bases in the DNA. It us identified by the letter G.
It formed with cytosine and is essential for replication.

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Cytosine

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One types of nitrogen bases in the DNA. It is identified by capital letter C. It from some of the rungs and is paired with quinine and is essential for replication.

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Gene

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Made up of a series of bases in a row which are arranged in spasmodic order or single gene on a chromosome May can’t sin anywhere from several hundred to a million or more of these bases.

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DNA replication

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The process in which an identical copy of a DNA strand is formed for a new cell.

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RNA

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Ribonuclease acid; the genetic message that carries the genetic code from DNA inside he nucleus to the cytoplasm .

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Uracil

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A nitrogen base found in RNA instead of thymine; abbreviated U.

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DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parent to offspring.

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