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What are the detailed structures that form DNA?

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DNA is made up of…

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Polymers of nucleotides

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What are the four nitrogenous bases found in DNA?

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Adenine

Guanine

Cytosine

Thymine

3
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_____ is found in RNA instead of _____

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Uracil

Thymine

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Which bases are purines?

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Adenine

Guanine

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Which bases are pyrimidines?

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Cytosine
Thymine
Uracil?

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What are the types of sugars that could be in nucleic acids?

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Ribose

Deoxyribose

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Where is deoxyribose found?

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DNA

8
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Where is ribose found?

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RNA

9
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What does DNA stand for?

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Deoxyribonucleic acid

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What does RNA stand for?

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Ribonucleic acid

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What is the structural difference between ribose and deoxyribose?

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An absent hydroxyl group on carbon #2 in deoxyribose

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Name the RNA and DNA nucleoside of adenine

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Adenosine

Deoxyadenosine

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Name the RNA and DNA nucleoside of cytosine

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Cytidine

Deoxycytidine

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Name the RNA and DNA nucleoside of guanine

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Guanosine

Deoxyguanosine

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Name the RNA and DNA nucleoside of thymine

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Not found in RNA

Deoxythymidine or thymidine

16
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Name the RNA and DNA nucleoside of uracil

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Not found in DNA

Uridine

17
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Draw a trinucleotide

Draw general purine and pyrimidines structure
Draw each nucleotide base

Draw ribose and deoxyribose

Draw a nucleoside

Structure of dAMP
Structure of dADP
Structure of dATP

Structure of AT and GC base pairs

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