Nucleic Acids Flashcards
What are the nucleic acids?
RNA and DNA
Individual nucleotides are made up of 3 components:
Pentose sugar
Phospate group
Nitrogen containing base
What are the nitrogen containing bases?
Cytosine
Thymine
Uracil
Adenine
Guanine
How is the pentose sugar, phosphate group and organic bases joined together? And to form what?
By condensation reactions to form a single nucleotide
Two mononucleotides may, in turn, be joined as a result of a ______________ reaction between the deoxyribose sugar of one mononucleotide and the _________ group of another.
Condenstation,
Phosphate
What bond is formed between 2 mononucleotides joined together after a condensation reaction?
A phosphodiester bond
What is the continued linking of mononucleotides called?
A polynucleotide
What is RNA?
It is a polymer made up of nucleotides
What is the structure of RNA?
Single, short, polynucleotide chain in which the pentose sugar is always ribose and organic bases are Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil
One type of RNA transfers genetic information from ___ to the ribosomes
DNA
The ________ themselves are made of proteins and another type of RNA. A third type of RNA is involved in _______ _________.
Ribosomes
Protein synthesis
In DNA, the _______ sugar is deoxyribose and the ________ bases are Adenine, Thymine, _______ and cytosine.
Pentose
Organic
Guanine
DNA is made up of? (structure wise)
Two strands of nucleotides (polynucleotide)
Each of the two strands is _______ _____, and they are joined together by _______ bonds formed between certain bases.
Extremely long,
Hydrogen
The bases on the two strands of ___ attach to each other by ___________ bonds
DNA,
Hydrogen
Adenine always pairs to?
Thymine
Guanine always pairs with?
Cytosine
Adenine is complementary to ______ and guanine is complementary to _______
Thymine
Cytosine
It follows that the _________ of adenine and thymine in DNA are always the same, and so are the ________ of guanine and ________.
Quantities,
Quantities,
Cytosine
However, the ____ of adenine and thymine to guanine and cytosine _____ species to species
Ratio
Varies
The uprights of __________ and deoxyribose wind around one another to form a ______ _______.
Phosphate
Double helix
DNA is a stable molecule. Give a reason related to the phophosidester backbone.
Phosphodiester backbone protects the more chemically reactive organic bases inside the double helix
DNA is a stable molecule. Give a reason related to the hydrogen bonds.
The hyrogen bonds link the organic base pairs forming bridges between the phosphodiester uprights.
DNA is the _________ material responsible for passing genetic information from ____ to _____ and generation to generation
Hereditary,
Cell,
Cell
How many base pairs are in the DNA of a typical mammalian cell?
3.2 billion
DNA is a very _____ molecule which normally passes form generation to generation without _____. Only rarely does it ______.
Stable,
Change,
Mutate,
DNA’s two separate strands are joined only with _______ bonds, which allow them to separate during DNA _________ and protein synthesis
Hydrogen
Replication
DNA is an extremely _____ molecule and therefore _______ an immense amount of _______ information
Large
Carries
Genetic
DNA has the base pairs within the ______ cylinder of the ______________–phosphate backbone, the genetic information is to some extent ___________ from being corrupted by outside chemical and _________ forces.
Helical
Deoxyribose
Protected
Physical
DNA base pairing leads to DNA being able to __________ and to transfer information as _____
Replicate
mRNA