Compsci 4g, Fall 2005, Vocabulary

Write a short, but complete definition or explanation for each of the terms below. Don't spend more than two hours on this entire assignment including reading that you do. In class on Friday you'll combine your efforts with those from people in your group for one submission per group.

  1. 5' and 3'
  2. Codon
  3. DNA Sequencing
  4. Bioinformatics
  5. Computational Biology
  6. EST
  7. SNP
  8. FASTA
  9. intron
  10. Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS)
  11. Microarray