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in copying the retrovirus's RNA into a complementary strand of DNA once inside the host cell. Related Topics: Genetics By permission. From Online Biology Book Glossary property of Prof. Michael Farabee

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creating messenger RNA (mRNA), Venter set his focus on mRNA. He began making sturdier clone copies of the otherwise fragile mRNA; and these stronger and analyzable copies he called cDNAs . By sequencing only the cDNAs he could be assured

It is coded into messenger RNA by the process that reads the raw cellular DNA. This fact leads to an interesting double-mindedness on the part of Daniel Kevles, historian of science, and Leroy Hood, molecular geneticist. On the one hand, they

of the cell and its external environment. The nucleoid within the cell contains the cell’s circular DNA molecule , which houses E. coli’s genetic information. The genome of E. coli - the instructional information residing in

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