DNA Flashcards
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Function
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Store and transmit heredity
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DNA Location
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In chromosomes of each cell
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Nucleotides
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Made of a 5 carbon sugar (deoxyribose), a phosphate group, nitrogenous base that makes DNA
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Base Pairing
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Hydrogen bonds can form only between
adenine and thymine or
guanine and cytosine
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Replication
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The DNA molecule separates into 2 strands and produces two new complementary strands
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RNA
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Ribonucleic Acid that contain coded info to makin proteins. The 3 main types are messenger RNA, ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA.
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RNA compared to DNA
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The cell uses the vital DNA master plan within the nucleus to prepare RNA blueprints at the protein building sites in the cytoplasm
