Nucleic Acids PPT Slides
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What is the structure of DNA? | A Single Strand |
| What are nucleic acids? | Polymers of nucleotides |
| What are the sugars of nucleic acids? | ribose in RNA Deoxyribose in DNA |
| What are the nitrogen contain bases? | Cytosine, Uracil, Thymine, Guanine, Adenine |
| Which bases are pyrimidines? | Cytosine, Uracil, Thymine |
| Whic bases are purines? | Guanine, Adenine |
| What forms between G-C pairs and A-T pairs? | Hydrogen bonds |
| What dictates the specificity of base pairing? | H-bonding |
| What pairing gives the best fit? | Purine-Pyrimidine pairing |
| What guides the replication of DNA? | Complementary pairing of bases |
| Key ways in which RNA differs from DNA? | RNA - single stranded, base Uracil (not Thymine), Sugar ribose (not deoxy), structure more diverse, less stable, Catalytic (a ribozyme) |
| What ability makes RNA a key candidate as the first infomation molecule in Molecular Evolution? | Its ability to catalyze its own synthesis. |
| What is RNA's structure (relative to DNA)? | RNA is a single stranded structure, but has the same sugar-phosphate backbone as DNA. |
| What structures is RNA capable of having? | Secondary and tertiary structure by H-bonding Also forms quaternary structure |
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