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a sequence of three nucleotides forming a unit of genetic code in a transfer RNA molecule, corresponding to a complementary codon in messenger RNA. |
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a virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it. |
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| constraints imposed by the molecular structure of DNA and RNA on the formation of hydrogen bonds among the four purine and pyrimidine bases such that adenine pairs with thymine or uracil, and guanine pairs with cytosine |
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a theory in genetics and molecular biology subject to several exceptions that genetic information is coded in self-replicating DNA and undergoes unidirectional transfer to messenger RNAs in transcription which act as templates for protein synthesis in translation. |
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a sequence of three nucleotides that together form a unit of genetic code in a DNA or RNA molecule. |
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| is a type of enzyme that is responsible for forming new copies of DNA, in the form of nucleic acid molecules. |
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| a segment of a DNA or RNA molecule containing information coding for a protein or peptide sequence. |
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is a genetic mutation caused by indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides in a DNA sequence that is not divisible by three. |
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a segment of a DNA or RNA molecule that does not code for proteins and interrupts the sequence of genes. |
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| the form of RNA in which genetic information transcribed from DNA as a sequence of bases is transferred to a ribosome. |
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