Microbial Genetics Flashcards
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The science of heredity; including the study of genes, how information is carried, and how this information is replicated and passed in to subsequent generations.
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Genetics
2
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Sequence of DNA which code for functional products
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Genes
3
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The physical structures which code for functional products
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Chromosomes
4
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All the generic information of an organism
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Genome
5
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These 3 are the building blocks of?
phosphate group
Pentode sugar (deoxy ribose)
One of four nitrogenous bases
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Polymers of nucleotides
6
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The following bases are?
How many rings? (Single or double)
Adenine (A) & Guanine (G)
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Two purine bases
Double rings
7
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The following are what bases?
How many rings?
Cytosine (C)
Thymine (T)
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Two pyrimidine bases
Single ring
8
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The pyrimidine base that found in RNA is?
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Uracil (U)
