nucleotide
a unit of dna or rna consisting of a sugar a phosphate and a base.
dna replication
the process of a dna molecule making a copy of itself
base sequence
the order of base pairs along a gene
protein synthesis
the production of proteins in the cell
mutation
a change in the heredity material of an organism
genetic disorder
an abnormal condition that an organism inherits
selective breeding
the process of selecting organism with desired traits to serve as parents for the generation
genetic engineering
the process of transferring genes from one organism into the dna of another organism
dna fingerprinting
the process of producing an image of patterns from someone's dna
genome
the total amount of heredity material in a single cell of an organism
mitochondrial dna
dna that is found in the mitochondria of a cell