| deoxyribonucleic acid: an extremely long macromolecule that is the main component of chromosomes and is the material that transfers genetic characteristics in all life forms, constructed of two nucleotide strands coiled around each other in a ladderlike a |
| type of point mutation in which a single nucleotide is substituted with a different nucleotide |
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