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DNA is comprised of a ____ and ____ backbone.
sugar and phosphate
___ and ___ are purines.
Adenine and Guanine
Purines base pair with
pyrimidines.
dsDNA strands run in opposite directions making them
antiparallel.
When DNA is replication, parent strands are used as templates for making new strands, so this is considered
semiconservative.
DNA polymerase makes new DNA in a ___ to ___ direction.
5' -> 3'
DNA helicase
unzips your genes.
The enzyme that seals together pieces of DNA is
DNA ligase.
The discontinuous strand is called the
lagging strand.
The leading strand is made
continuously.
Prokaryotic DNA is
circular.
The ends of eukaryotic DNA contain ____, which are lost with age.
telomeres.
The genetic makeup of an organism is its
genotype.
The expression of traits is an organism's
phenotype.
The study of the entire set of genetic material is
genomics.
Transcription reads ___ into ___.
DNA into RNA
