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Chapter 15: Genes and How They Work


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Chapter 15: Genes and How They Work

p. 301: ribosomes, ribosomal RNA (rRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), messenger RNA (mRNA)

p. 302: transcription, RNA polymerase, promoter, translation, gene expression

p. 303: codons, reading frame, triplet code, triplet binding assay

p. 305: transcription, template strand, coding strand, -35 sequence, -10 sequence, TATA box, & (sigma), transcription complex

p. 306: transcription bubble, 5' cap, 3' polyA tails

p. 307: anticodon

p. 308: aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, nonsense codons, stop signals, start signals

p. 309: initiation complex, initiation factors, A site, E site, leader sequence, elongation factors

p. 310: peptidyl transferase, translocation, release factors

p. 311: introns, exons, primary RNA transcript, primary transcript, reverse transcriptase

p. 312: RNA processing, RNA splicing

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