Chalter 1 - Part 6: Nucleic Acid

Question 1

What does Nucleic acid contain?

Answer 1

CHONP

Question 2

What is DNA composed of?

Answer 2

2 long strands of subunits called nucleotides, wound around each other to form the familiar double he lice (runs anti parallel)

Question 3

Where is DNA found?

Answer 3

Nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplast

Question 4

RNA

Answer 4

Usually composed of single chain of nucleotides and forms a single strand

Question 5

What are the types of RNA

Answer 5

mRNA tRNA rRNA

Question 6

What are nucleotides

Answer 6

The basic monomer of a Nucleic acid

Question 7

What are the 3 components of a nucleotide

Answer 7

A phosphate group
5 carbon sugar
A nitrogenous base

Question 8

What are the 5 nucleotide bases?

Answer 8

Adenine
Guanine
Cytosine
Thymine - Uracil

Question 9

What are the Purines

Answer 9

Adenine and guanine (double ringed)

Question 10

What are the pyrimidines

Answer 10

Cytosine
Thymine
Uracil

Question 11

What are Nucleic acids

Answer 11

Polymers made up of many units called nucleotides

Question 12

what is a triplet

Answer 12

where 3 nucleotides code for an amino acid

Question 13

What is a genes?

Answer 13

genes code for proteins, total set of genes = genome

Question 14

what is genomics?

Answer 14

study of gene sets