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Deoxyribose
a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids
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an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as wel…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.single-stranded DNA that is complementary to messenger RNA or DNA that has been synthesized from messenger RNA by reverse transcriptase
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns"
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.single-stranded DNA that is complementary to messenger RNA or DNA that has been synthesized from messenger RNA by reverse transcriptase
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.(biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associ…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.(biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associ…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.(biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associ…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells)
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along wit…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along wit…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along wit…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Polymer chemistry.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
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In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.(biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a combined form as a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.the outer covering of protein surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.A structure of nucleic acids and proteins found in the nucleus of cells, containing genetic information
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into const…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, espec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugar, constituent, nucleic, acids.
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