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  1. 3. is a trinucleotide sequence of DNA or RNA that corresponds to a specific amino acid.
  2. 5. is a simple sugar and carbohydrate
  3. 7. is any nucleotide sequence within a gene that is removed by RNA splicing during maturation of the final RNA product
  4. 8. is a membrane-bound organelle that contains genetic material
  5. 11. is a short nucleic acid sequence that provides a starting point for DNA synthesis.
  6. 14. fork is a structure that forms within the long helical DNA during DNA replication.
  7. 19. are sequences of nucleotides that are complementary to codons.
  8. 21. strand is the strand of nascent DNA whose direction of synthesis is opposite to the direction of the growing replication fork.
  9. 22. strand is a single DNA strand that, during DNA replication, is replicated in the 3' – 5' direction
  10. 23. called guanosine.
  11. 25. a sugar derived from ribose by replacing a hydroxyl group with hydrogen.
  12. 26. are biological molecules (typically proteins) that significantly speed up the rate of virtually all of the chemical reactions
  13. 27. is a macronutrient that is essential to building muscle mass
  14. 29. are enzymes that bind and may even remodel nucleic acid or nucleic acid protein complexes.
  15. 30. is a single linear chain of many amino acids (any length), held together by amide bonds
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  1. 1. is the gelatinous liquid that fills the inside of a cell
  2. 2. is the process of making an RNA copy of a gene sequence.
  3. 4. located on one strand form chemical bonds with guanine bases on the opposite strand
  4. 6. process that takes the information passed from DNA as messenger RNA
  5. 9. is a long DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
  6. 10. are the naturally occurring form of the element phosphorus
  7. 12. is one of nitrogenous bases utilized in the synthesis of nucleic acids.
  8. 13. composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other
  9. 15. is one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of DNA that are represented by the letters G–C–A–T.
  10. 16. acid is an organic molecule that is made up of a basic amino group
  11. 17. bond is a chemical bond formed between two molecules when the carboxyl group of one molecule reacts with the amino group
  12. 18. is the addition of a poly(A) tail to an RNA transcript, typically a messenger RNA (mRNA).
  13. 20. also known as nitrogenous bases or often simply bases
  14. 24. binds to adenine via two hydrogen bonds
  15. 28. number of bases in one codon