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DNA: The Genetic Material

Practice your vocabulary for Chapter 9

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virulentable to cause disease
transformationchange in phenotype by taking up foreign DNA
bacteriophagevirus that attacks bacteria
double helixshape of DNA
nucleotidesubunits that make up DNA
deoxyribosesugar in DNA nucleotide
complementarysequence of bases on one strand determines the other
DNA replicationprocess of making a copy of DNA
DNA helicaseenzymes that unzip DNA
Replication forkplace where DNA double helix separates
DNA polymeraseenzymes that add nucleotides during replication
Griffithbacterial transformation to prove DNA is genetic material
Averyenzyme experiments to prove DNA is genetic material
Hershey and ChaseDNA of viruses is genetic material, not protein
Watson and Crickproposed double helix structure
Chargaffbase pairing rules
adenine and guaninepurines
thymine and cytosinepyrimidines
adenine pairs withthymine
guanine pairs withcytosine

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