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Are biopolymers or large biomolecules essential to all known forms of life.

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Nucleic acids

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Nucleotides are made of three components

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Five carbon sugar, phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base

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There are two types of nucleic acids

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Dna and RNA

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Is the cellular molecule that contains instruction for the performance of all cell functions

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DNA

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Commonly exist as a double-stranded molecule with the twisted double helix shape

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Dna

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Dna is composed of a phosphate deoxyribose sugar backbone and the four nitrogenous bases:

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Adenine guanine cystosine uracil

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Most commonly exist as a single-stranded molecule

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Rna

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Rna is composed of a phosphate ribose sugar backbone and the nitrogenous bases:

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Adenine guanine cytosine and uracil

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When organism’s egg cell and sperm cell unite, they combine the genetic materials in order to form a new individual with distinct set of characteristics, we call this

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Heredity

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are joined to one another by covalent bonds between the phosphate of one in the sugar of another

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Nucleotides

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Is the sugar present in RNA

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Ribose

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Is the sugar present in DNA

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Deoxyribose

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The biomolecule that transmits traits of parents to children is called

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Nucleic acid

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Nucleotide contain ______ sugars

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Five carbon

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What is the number of different kinds of nucleotides present in any rna or dna molecule

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Four

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Which of the following are the three single ring bases that occur in nucleic acid
A adenine guanine and uracil
B. Adenine cytosine and uracil
C. Cytosine thymine and uracil
D. Cytosine guanine and thymine

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C. Cytosine thymine uracil

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The backbone of a nucleic acid molecule consists of an alternating sequence of
A. Sugar and phosphate groups
B. Sugar and base groups
C. Phosphate and base groups

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A. Sugar and phosphate groups

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