Biochemistry - Nucleic Acids

Question 1

What is the purpouse of Nucleic Acids?

Answer 1

• store and transfer gentetic informantion

- store energy as ATP

Question 2

What is the monomer of Nucleic Acids?

Answer 2

nucleotides

Question 3

What makes up a nucleotides?

Answer 3

• a 5-carbon sugar
• a phosphate group
• a nitrogen-containing group

Question 4

What are the two types of Nucleic Acids?

Answer 4

• DNA: Deoxyribosenucleic Acids

- RNA: Ribonucleic Acids

Question 5

How do the structures of Nucleic acids differ?

Answer 5

the pentose sugar that is present

Question 6

DNA and RNA are ______ ______molecules that are polymers of nucleotides.

Answer 6

DNA and RNA are HUGE MACROmolecules that are polymers of nucleotides.

Question 7

What dose a nucleotide look like?

Answer 7

hexagon(single or double ring) nitrogen base attatched to 1’ carbon pentagon ribose(5-carbon sugar) attaches to 5’ branch phosphate group

Question 8

How are DNA and RNA held together?

Answer 8

dehydration synthesis

Question 9

What are the momomers for DNA?

Answer 9

Adenine, Thymine

Cytosine, Guamine

Question 10

What are the momomers of RNA?

Answer 10

Adenine, Uracil

Cytosine, Guamine

Question 11

What dose DNA make up?

Answer 11

genes and chromosones

Question 12

What dose RNA help with?

Answer 12

protine sythesis

Question 13

What dose DNA controll?

Answer 13

all cell activity (cell division, protine sythesis)

Question 14

What can DNA undergo why is this important?

Answer 14

mutation, evolution

Question 15

What sugar is in DNA?

Answer 15

Deoxyribose

Question 16

What sugar is in RNA?

Answer 16

Ribose

Question 17

What shape is DNA? RNA?

Answer 17

double helix

single helix

Question 18

VOCAB: Genetic Code

Answer 18

the squence of nucleotides in DNA

Question 19

VOCAB: Purines

Answer 19

double ring structure (Adenine, Guanine)

Question 20

VOCAB: Pyrimidines

Answer 20

single sing structure (Thymine, Cytosine, Uracil)

Question 21

DNA consists of two ________ strands of nucleic acids.

Answer 21

DNA consists of two ANTIPARRALLEL strands of nucleic acids.

Question 22

Each strand of nucleic acids in DNA consists of a backbone made from….?

Answer 22

sugar and phosphate

Question 23

VOCAB: Complementary Bonding

Answer 23

the H-bonds between the opposite strand’s basses.
- A’s with T’s
- C’s with G’s
RNA - A’s with U’s

Question 24

How is RNA formed?

Answer 24

off a DNA template in the nucleus

Question 25

What are the types of RNA?

Answer 25

• ribosonal RNA
• transfer RNA
• messsanger RNA

Question 26

VOCAB: ATP

Answer 26

Adenosine Triphosphate

- molecule of energy

Question 27

What is the structure of ATP?

Answer 27

adenosine base, ribose sugar, 3 phosephate groups