Ribosome: Makes Proteins

DNA Polymerase: Enzyme responsible for making DNA

Amino Acid: Monomers of Protein

Polypeptide: Another name for "Protein"

Genes: Sections of DNA that code for protein

RNA polymerase: an enzyme that reads one DNA strand and makes a complementary mRNA sequence.

Elongation: When the amino chain lengthens

Codon: 3 nucleotide sequence of mRNA that codes for the amino acid

Anticodon: 3 nucleotide sequence of tRNA that is complementary to mRNA.

Exon: "EX-pressed"

Introns: "IN-tervening"

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