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What is a deoxy(genated) sugar?
What is a deoxy(genated) sugar?
A sugar that has one oxygen atom less than it's oxygenated counterpart.
What is a Ketose?
What is a Ketose?
A sugar with its carbonyl group in the middle.
What does a phospholipid consist of?
What does a phospholipid consist of?
A hydrophilic head consisting of Choline, a Phospate and a Glycerol, and a hydrophobic tail consisting of two Fatty Acids.
What is an intron?
What is an intron?
An Intragenic Region; DNA omitted in RNA replication.
What is the function of Primase?
What is the function of Primase?
It syntheses RNA primers using DNA as a template. These primers mark the start of synthesis for DNA Polymerase.
What is a mutation?
What is a mutation?
A permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence in a genome
What is a frame-shift mutation?
What is a frame-shift mutation?
A large-scale mutation where a base pair is inserted or deleted, causing the entire reading frame to shift, altering all subsequent amino acids of the polypeptide.
What is a double monosomic ploidy mutation?
What is a double monosomic ploidy mutation?
Missing one copy of two different chromosomes.
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