genetics

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genetics

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Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes,

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heredity

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Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring

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inheritance

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Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual

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dominant

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a dominant trait or gene.

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recessive

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a recessive trait or gene.

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allele

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An allele is a variant form of a given gene

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DNA

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deoxyribonucleic acid

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deoxyribonucleic acid

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A self-replicating material that is present in all living matter, contains genetic information

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nucleotides

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one of the structural components, or building blocks. consists of a base (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) plus a molecule of sugar and one phosphoric acid

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base pairing

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two complementary nitrogenous molecules that are connected by hydrogen bonds.

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chargaff’s rule

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guanine bonds with cytosine, thymine bonds with adenine

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nucleic acid

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a complex organic substance present in living cells

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nitrogenous base

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a nitrogenous base is simply a nitrogen-containing molecule that has the same chemical properties as a base.

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base-pairing rule

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states that adenine (A) bonds with thymine (T) and that guanine (G) bonds with cytosine (A)

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double helix

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the structures formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA

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complementary base-pairing

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states that adenine (A) bonds with thymine (T) and that guanine (G) bonds with cytosine (A)

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triplet

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The base sequence of three nucleotides

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amino acid

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code for triplet

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ribose

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Ribose is a kind of sugar that is produced by the body.

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uracil

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a type of nitrogenous base

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codon

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the triplet code for a nucleotide in mRNA

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messenger RNA (mRNA)

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s a large family of RNA molecules that convey genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where they specify the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.

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transcription

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the process in which a copy of the DNA strand is formed as mRNA

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locus

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a particular position or place where something occurs or is situated.

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linked

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genes that are located on the same chromosome

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genome

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the total set of genes within an individual or cell

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genomics

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the study of genomes

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genome map

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describes the order of genes and the space between them in each chromosome

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epigenetics

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the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.

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gene sequencing

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identifies the order of nucleotides along a gene.