Sarah Is a 12th-Grader

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Essay

Sarah is a 12th-grader. She is beginning to question her parents' religious views and authority a lot, but her own career goals are starting to solidify after years of exploring and doing volunteer work at a veterinary clinic. Explain where Sarah is at in her identity development using Marcia's classification system.

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Definitions:

Bidirectionally

In a manner that involves or capable of moving in two opposite directions.

Nitrogen Bases

Organic molecules that serve as the building blocks of nucleotides, which in turn make up nucleic acids like DNA and RNA. The main nitrogen bases are adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil.

RNA Primer

The sequence of about five RNA nucleotides that are synthesized during DNA replication to provide a 3' end to which DNA polymerase adds nucleotides. The RNA primer is later degraded and replaced with DNA.

RNA Primase

An enzyme that creates a short RNA primer as the first step in DNA replication, necessary for DNA polymerase to initiate synthesis.