Genetic Vocab Terms
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copy deck
- amplification
- increase in the number of copies of a specific dna fragment
- alleles
- alternative forms of a genetic locus
- centimorgan
- unit of measure of recombination frequency
- cloning vector
- dna molecule originating from a virus
- base sequence analysis
- method for determining the base sequence
- complementary sequences
- nucleic acid base sequences that can form a double stranded structure
- biotechnology
- used to for research and product development
- clone bank
- see genomic library
- cytosine
- a nitrogenous base one member of the base pair g-c
- cloning
- replicating group of cells
- adenine
- nitrogenous base
- autoradiography
- uses xray film to visualize radioactivity
- crossing over
- the breaking during meiosis of one maternal and one paternal chromosome
- centromere
- a specialized chromosome region to spindle fibers
- amino acid
- combined to form proteins in living things
- contig map
- a map depicting the relative order of a linked library of small overlapping clones
- contigs
- groups of clones representing overlapping regions of a genome
- arrayed library
- individual primary clones
- chromosomes
- self replicating genetic structures of cells containing the cellular dna that bears in its nucleotide
- base sequence
- the order of nucleotide bases in a dna molecule
- autosome
- chromosome not involved in sex determination
- complementary dna
- dna that is synthesized from a messenger rna
- cosmid
- artificially constructed cloning vector containing the cos gene of phage lambda
- conserved sequence
- base sequence in a dna molecule