13 Flashcards
Meischer
Nuclein
Griffith
Transformation
Avery, MacLeod, McCarty
Transformation
Hershey and Chase
Blender experiment
Chargaff
There are as mnay As as Ts and as many Cs as Gs
Base
Sugar
Nucleosides
Base
Sugar
Phosphatee
Nucleotides
What direction do nucleotides go?
5’ to 3’
How are the nucleotides numbered?
Base: numbers
Sugar: number ‘ (prime)
What is attached to 1’?
The base
What is attatched to the 5’?
Deoxyphosphate
What is attatched to the 3’?
A hydroxyl group
What is significant about 2’?
2’ is either oxygenated or deoxygenated. If there is no oxygen, it is deoxyribose and is for DNA. If there is an oxygen, then it is ribose and is for RNA
Are purines or pyrimidines bigger?
purines are larger
A and G
purines
C, U, and T
pyrimidines