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| What are the common pyrimide bases that exist in DNA and/or RNA? |
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| cytosine, uracil, and thymine |
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| What are the common purine bases? |
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| What is a nucleoside and what are the common nucleosides in RNA? |
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| It is a nitrogenous base bound to a sugar ring. Some common ones are cytidine, uridine, adenosine, and guanosine. |
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| What is more soluble in water, a nucleic acid or a nuceloside? |
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| A nucleoside because of the added hydrogen bonding that can occur as a result of the sugar molecule. |
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| Phosphate modified nucleosides, where a phosphoester linkage is created. |
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| How many H-bonds form between A and T? G and C? |
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| A:T is 2 bonds, and G:C is 3 bonds. |
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| An amino acid creates a neutral charge because of the equal number of positive and negative charges at physiological pH. |
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| The formation of the peptide bond is energetically _____? |
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N-terminus =
C-ternminus = |
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| Amino end, and carboxyl end |
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