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| What are the 2 types of nucleic acid? |
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| What are the building blocks of nucleic acid? |
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| Nucleotides (sugar, nitrogenous base, and a phosphate group) |
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| Nucleic acids are polymers of nucleotides called what? |
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| A nuleotide is made up of a nitrogenous base, pentose (5 carbon sugar), and a phosphate group. What is a nucleoside made up of? |
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| A nucleoside is made up of a nitrogenous base and sugar. |
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| It is a single 6-membered ring and includes cytosine, thymine, and uracil. |
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| It is a 6-membered ring fused to a 5-membered ring and it includes adenine and guanine. |
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| What is the sugar for DNA? What is the sugar for RNA? |
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DNA-deoxyribose
RNA-ribose |
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| What does DNA's sugar (deoxyribose) lack? |
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| Deoxyribose lacks oxygen on the 2nd carbon. |
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| 2 backbones that run in opposite 5' to 3' directions from each other. |
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| DNA molecule that has 2 polynucleotides spiraling around an imaginary axis. |
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| What is nucleic acid's function? |
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| To store and transmit genetic information. |
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| DNA codes for synthesis of RNA (messenger RNA or mRNA). mRNA codes for what? Where does this happen? |
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| mRNA codes for the synthesis of protein, which takes place in the ribosomes. |
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