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| What are Nucleic acids made of? |
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| What are nucleotides made up of? |
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| A sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base |
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| What is a sugar composed of? |
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| A carbonyl group and a hydroxyl group |
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| A 5-Carbon sugar, has no OH, just H |
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| What are the Pyrimidines? |
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Cytosine and Uracil in RNA
Thymine in DNA |
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| How do nucleic acids form? |
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| When the phosphate group of a nucleotide group combines with a hydroxyl group of the sugar. |
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| What is the bonding called for nucleotides? |
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| What kind of bonds form between nitrogenous bases? |
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| How many bonds are between Guanine and Cytosine? |
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| How many bonds are bonding Uracil and Adenine? |
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| How many strands are used in forming RNA? |
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