DNA Unit Vocabulary Words

*All words must be handwritten, numbered, and underlined.

*If you cannot find a word in the glossary of your book, look in the index, look in your notes, or look it up in a dictionary.

 

DNA Unit (35 words)

1. vaccine

2. virulent

3. transformation

4. bacteriophage

5. double helix

6. nucleotide

7. deoxyribose

8. base-pairing rules

9. complementary

10.  DNA replication

11. DNA helicase

12. replication fork

13. DNA polymerase

14. ribonucleic acid (RNA)

15. uracil

16. transcription

17.  translation

18.  gene expression

19. RNA polymerase

20. messenger RNA (mRNA)

21. codon

22. genetic code

23. transfer RNA (tRNA)

24. anti-codon

25. ribosomal RNA (rRNA)

26. adenine

27. thymine

28.guanine

29. cytosine

30. point mutation

31. frame-shift mutation (pg. 218)

32. genetic engineering

33. recombinant DNA

34. DNA fingerprint

35. Human Genome Project