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Molecular Biology / Genetics Keywords
— Make sure you are familiar with these keywords before the course starts —
- adenine (A)
- alpha-helix
- amino acid
- amino-terminal (N-terminal)
- anticodon
- ATP
- base (in DNA or RNA)
- base composition
- base pair
- beta-strand, beta-sheet
- carboxy-terminal (C-terminal)
- cDNA
- cell
- central dogma
- charged amino acid
- chromosome
- coding region
- codon
- complement strand
- cytosine (C)
- deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
- double-stranded DNA
- eukaryote
- exon
- frame-shift
- gene
- genetic code
- genome
- genomic DNA
- genotype
- guanine (G)
- GTP
- hydrophilic
- hydrophobic
- intron
- locus
- messenger RNA (mRNA)
- mitochondria
- mutant
- mutation
- natural selection
- nucleic acid
- nucleotide
- nucleus
- open reading frame (ORF)
- phenotype
- plasma membrane
- polar amino acid
- polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- polymorphism
- polypeptide chain
- prokaryote
- protein
- protein folding
- protein structure (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary)
- purine
- pyrimidine
- random genetic drift
- recombination
- replication
- restriction enzyme
- ribonucleic acid (RNA)
- ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
- ribosome
- single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
- single-stranded DNA
- splicing
- start (initiation) codon
- stop codon
- thymine (T)
- transcription
- transfer RNA (tRNA)
- translation
- transmembrane
- uracil (U)
- Watson-Crick base pairing
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