KEY TERMS

antiparallel

base

complementary base

conservative replication

daughter molecule

deoxyribose

distributive enzyme

DNA ligase

double helix

enol

genetic code

helicase

imino

keto

lagging strand

leading strand

major groove

minor groove

nucleotide

nucleotide base

Okazaki fragment

origin

phosphate

polymerase III (pol III) holoenzyme

primase

primer

primosome

processive enzyme

purine

pyrimidine

replication fork

replisome

semiconservative replication

single-strand-binding (SSB) protein

tautomerization

telomerase

telomere

template

topoisomerase

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