Ch. 10 Vocab

Viruses that infect bacteria

Consists of 3 parts that help make up DNA: 5 carbon sugar, phosphate group, & nitrogenous base

Cytosine-Guanine
Adenine-Thymine

Process where DNA is copied in a cell before a cell divides by mitosis, meiosis, or binary fusion

Add complementary nucleotides to each of the original strands

Change in the nucleotide sequence of a DNA molecule

DNA acts as a template for the synthesis of RNA

RNA directs the assembly of proteins

Forming proteins based on information in DNA &n carried out by RNA (also called gene expression)

Single stranded RNA molecule that carries instructions from a gene to make a protein

Part of the structure of ribosomes

Transfers amino acids to the ribosome to make a protein

Term for the rules that relate to how a sequence of nitrogenous bases in nucleotides corresponds to a particular amino acid

Each 3-nucleotide sequence in mRNA that encodes an amino acid or signifies a start or stop signal

2 nucleotides on the RNA that are complementary to the sequence of a codon in mRNA