nucleic acids
what are nucleic acids?
polymers made up of thousands of repeating nucleotide monomers
what is a nucleotide made up of?
a phosphate group, a sugar with five carbon atoms, a nitrogen containing base
what are the two types of nucleic acids?
deoxyribonucleic acid, and ribonucleic acid
what is deoxyribonucleic acid?
doubke stranded, contains deoxyribose, contains A, G, C, T
LOCATED in the nucleus
made throufh replication
what is DNA
genetic information of an organism
what is RNA
Assists in comversiln of DNA to proteins
what are the nitrogenous bases
cytosine, thymine, adenine, guanine (thymine is replaced by uracil in RNA)
what is a strand of DNA/RNA?
a polymer of nucleotides
what is the covalent bond between nucleotides called?
phosphodiester bond
what are the two purines
adenine and guanine
what arw the two pyramidines?
cytosine, uracil, thymine
nucleotides occur in a specific order
Yes
what is the structure of a DNA?
A double helix, and it resembles a ladder
what are the sides of the DNA made up of?
Alternating phosphate and sugar, sugar molecules
what are the wrongs of the ladder made up of?
Nitrogenous spaces held together by H bonds
describe the basic structure of the DNA molecule
alternating phosphate, nitrogen spaces held by H bonds, nucleotide bases
what do the four macro molecules contain ( what elements?
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen (varying amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur)