Everything in this flashcard set.
- Cambridge
- A university in England
- helix
- A curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- Francis Crick
- English biochemist who helped discover the helical structure of DNA
- intellectual
- A person who uses the mind creatively
- ingenious
- Showing inventiveness and skill
- ribonucleic acid
- A long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell
- Oxford
- A city in southern England to the northwest of London
- Nature
- The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
- radiation
- Energy that travels in waves or particles
- experiment
- The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
- celluloid
- Highly flammable substance made from ___ nitrate and camphor
- schematic
- Diagram of an electrical or mechanical system
- complication
- The act or process of ___
- replication
- The process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division
- equilibrium
- A stable situation in which forces cancel one another
- thermodynamics
- The branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy
- eukaryote
- An organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such
- prokaryote
- A unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei
- bacteriophage
- A virus that is parasitic in ___
- virus
- Ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts
- hypothesis
- A tentative insight into the natural world
- cell
- Tiniest unit of living things
- diffraction
- When light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce
- microscopy
- Research with the use of ___
