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- Abstraction --
- Cloning --
- Device --
- DNA Synthesis --
- Gel electrophoresis
- iGEM --
- Inverter --
- Measurement --
- Open Reading Frame -- the DNA pattern of triplet sequences that encode a protein
- Part --
- PCR -- a technique for amplifying DNA of known or unknown sequence. The reactions require only 4 components: DNA to be amplified, oligonucleotide primers to bind sequences flanking the target, dNTPs to polymerize into new DNA chains, and a heat stable polymerase in a buffered solution to carry out the synthesis reaction
- Plasmid --
- Promoter -- sequence of DNA to which RNA polymerase binds for initiation of transcription
- Restriction Enzyme -- an enzyme that recognizes and cleaves a specific DNA sequence
- Ribosome Binding Site -- the sequence of RNA to which ribosome binds for initiation of translation
- Standardization --
- Translation -- the reaction that converts RNA-templated information to protein. This reaction is catalyzed by ribosomes
- Transcription -- the reaction that converts of DNA-templated information to RNA. This reaction is catalyzed by one of several RNA polymerases
- Transcriptional Terminator -- a sequence of DNA that signals the RNA polymerase to cease the synthesis of RNA. Terminator sequences are often inverted repeats in the DNA that fold into stem-loop structures, leading the RNA polymerase to pause and leave the DNA it is transcribing
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