Unit 4 bio vocab

Amino Acid

The monomer of a protein

Cancer

A disease in some body cells grow and divide damaging parts of the body.

Chemical bond

The force that holds two atoms together

Complementary base pairs

A-T, G-C

Genetic

Relating to genes or heredity

Mutation

A Change in a DNA that affects genetic information

Gene

Portion of DNA that codes a trait

Replication

Copying DNA before cell division

Translation

mRNA is cracked and a protein is produced

Nucleotide

A monomer made of five carbon sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a phosphate group

Template strand

Strand of DNA that orders the sequence of nucleotides

Anticodon

Three bases on a tRNA molecule

Codon

Three nucleotide chain that codes an amino acid

Semi conservative

Replication when each strand acts as a template for synthesis

Transcription

Synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA template