Nucleic Acid

Question 1

What are nucleic acids?

Answer 1

Found in cells and contain genetic material

Question 2

What are nucleic acids made of?

Answer 2

Several nucleotides that form a polynucleotide which forms DNA

Question 3

What five compounds make up a double helix DNA strand?

Answer 3

Adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine and phosphate backbone

Question 4

What is a single DNA monomer called?

Answer 4

Nucleotide

Question 5

What compounds make up a nucleotide?

Answer 5

5 carbon sugar (deoxyribose), phosphate group and a nitrogenous base

Question 6

What are the 4 nitrogenous bases in DNA

Answer 6

Adenine,guanine,thymine and cytosine

Question 7

What bases make up RNA

Answer 7

Adenine, guanine,cytosine and uracil

Question 8

What makes up double ringed purines?

Answer 8

Adenine and guanine

Question 9

What makes up pyramidines?

Answer 9

Thymine and cytosine

Question 10

What links two DNA strings together?

Answer 10

Hydrogen bonding

Question 11

What purines pair with pyramidines?

Answer 11

A pairs with T

C pairs with G