Chemical Digestion of ____________________ Is Initiated by the Secretion of Saliva.​

question 38

Short Answer

Chemical digestion of ____________________ is initiated by the secretion of saliva.​

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Definitions:

Vector

In biotechnology, a plasmid or other DNA molecule that can accept foreign DNA and be replicated inside a host cell. In epidemiology, an animal that carries a pathogen from one host to another.

Reverse Transcriptase

An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of DNA from an RNA template, crucial for the replication of retroviruses.

Retrovirus

RNA virus that uses the enzyme reverse transcriptase to produce viral DNA in a host cell.

Viral DNA

The genetic material of a virus, composed of DNA, which contains the instructions for replicating the virus within a host cell.