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Nucleic Acid Flashcards

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1
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What are Nucleic acids? and what is there definition?

A

Biochemical macromolecule that is involved with the transmission of inherited information.

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What are the two types of Nucleic acid?

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DNA

RNA

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3
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What does DNA stand for?

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Deoxyribonucleic acid

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What does RNA stand for?

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ribonucleic acid

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What are Nucleic acid made from?

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Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nirtogen, Carbon, Phosphorus

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What three componments make up a Nucleic acid?

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base
Sugar
Phosphate group

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7
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What sugar is it in nucleic acid?

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ribose

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What are the two types of bases called?

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Purines

Pyramidines

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Which base is smaller?

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Pyramidines

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Which base has a double ring layer?

A

Purines

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What are the types of purines base?

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Adenine

Guanine

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What are the types of Pyramidines base?

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Cytosine
Thymine
Uracil

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What bond is used in the base?

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Hydrogen bond

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What base is only found in RNA?

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Uracil

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What base is only found in DNA?

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Thymine

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What reaction forms a nucleotide?

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Condensation reaction

17
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How are Nucleotides formed?

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a phospheric acid and a base chemiclly bond to a sugar.

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What is lost during the fomration of a nucletide?

A

water

19
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What is there two of in a Dinucletide?

A

there are two nuletides

20
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How are Dinucleotides formed?

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Two nucletides are covalently bonded by a condensation reaction. the link is between the phosphate group and one nucletide and the sugar of another.

21
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What bond is in a Dinucleotide?

A

Phosphodiester

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