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noun • (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information | ||||||||
| 40% | 4 | Chromosome constituent | ||||||
noun • (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | ||||||||
| 30% | 3 | Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short" | ||||||
noun • an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code | ||||||||
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