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DNA/RNA
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Biology
9th Grade
04/11/2010
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A nucleotide contains?
 Definition
Phosphatase group, nitrogen-containing base, and sugar.
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What is a pyrimidine?
 Definition
Pyrimidines are single ringed nitrogen bases.
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What is a purine?
 Definition
Purines are double ringed nitrogen bases.
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Purine bases
 Definition
Adenine & Guanine
Term
Pyrimidine
 Definition
Thymine & Cytosine
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DNA
 Definition
- Deoxyribonucleic acid
- Nucleic acid: C, H, O, N, P
- Double Stranded
- Made of many Nucleotides
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DNA Structure
 Definition
Double Helix - found by Watson and Crick
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Types of RNA
 Definition
- mRNA
- tRNA
- rRNA
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