Nucleic acids

Question 1

What are nucleic acids

Answer 1

Polymers

Question 2

What is a mononucleotide

Answer 2

an individual unit of nucleic acids

Question 3

What does DNA stand for

Answer 3

deoxiribonucleic acid

Question 4

what does RNA stand for

Answer 4

ribonucleic acid

Question 5

What are nucleotides

Answer 5

5carbon sugar, phosphate, and nitrogenous base

Question 6

What binds the phosphate and 5 carbon sugar in a nucleotide

Answer 6

Ester bond

Question 7

What binds the 5 carbon sugar and the base in a nucleotide

Answer 7

Glycosidic bond

Question 8

What are the bases

Answer 8

Adenine, thymine, uracil, guanine, cytosine

Question 9

What bases are in DNA

Answer 9

ATCG (adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine)

Question 10

What bases are in RNA

Answer 10

ATCU (adenine, thymine, cytosine, uracil)

Question 11

Properties of purines (larger)

Answer 11

Have double rings of carbon and nitrogen atoms
Adenine
Guanine

Question 12

What are purine bases

Answer 12

adenine, guanine

Question 13

Properties of pyrimidines (smaller)

Answer 13

Have a single ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms
Thymine, uracil and cytosine are all pyrimidine bases

Question 14

How many hydrogen bonds are in polypurine?

Answer 14

3 hydrogen bonds

Question 15

How many hydrogen bonds are in purine?

Answer 15

2 hydrogen bonds