Nucleic Acids

Question 1

Nucleic acids

Answer 1

Polymers made of nucleotide monomers

Question 2

Function to:

Answer 2

Store, transmit, and express hereditary information

Question 3

Elements involved in nucleic acids

Answer 3

CHOPN, carbon, hydrogen, phosphorus, nitrogen

Question 4

Monomer

Answer 4

nucleotides

Question 5

Polymers

Answer 5

DNA, RNA

Question 6

Contain 3 parts

Answer 6

1. Nitrogenous base
2. Five carbon sugar (pentagon shape)
3. Phosphate group(s)

Question 7

Pyrimidines

Answer 7

1. One ring with 6 atoms
   -Cytosine, thymine, uracil

Question 8

Purines

Answer 8

2. Two rings one with 6 atoms and the other with 5 atoms
   -adenine, guanine

Question 9

Five carbon sugar

Answer 9

1. Sugar bonded to the base
2. DNA sugar is called deoxyribose
3. RNA sugar is called ribose

Question 10

Polynucleotides

Answer 10

Phosphate groups link adjacent nucleotides (directionality), sequence of bases along DNA or RNA is unique for each gene

Question 11

DNA

Answer 11

1. Consists of two polynucleotides
2. Strands are antiparallel
3. Held together by hydrogen bonds between bases
4. C to G, A to T

Question 12

RNA

Answer 12

1. Single stranded polynucleotide
2. Variable in shape
3. A to U, C to G