| adenine | electrophoresis | nucleotide | polymerase |
| annealing | elongation | PCR | polymerase chain reaction |
| base pair | guanine | pentose sugar | primer |
| complementarity | hydrogen bond | phosphate | pyrophosphate |
| cytosine | monomer | phosphodiester bond | template |
| denaturation | nitrogenous base | phylogeny | thermal cycler |
| DNA polymerase | nucleoside | polymer | thymine |
| DNA sequencing | nucleoside triphosphate |