Nucleic Acids Flashcards

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What are the types of Nucleic acids?

A

Deoxyribonucleic acid and Ribonucleic acid

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2
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What is used by the nucleic acid?

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Contains instructions for protein synthesises and other gene products

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3
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Nucleic acids are the polymers, then what are the monomers?

A

Nucleotides

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4
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The carbons in nucleotide goes clockwise, correct?

A

True

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5
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How are nucleic acids formed?

A

When the nucleotides are bonded via condensation reaction

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What is stronger phosphodiester bond or hydrogen bond?

A

phosphodiester bond

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How are the two polynucleotide strands in DNA kept together?

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Hydrogen bonds

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How can knowing complementary base pairs be useful?

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-Can predict the nucleotide sequence for the other strand
-Can determine the percentage of allll the other bases as long as you have one bases percentage

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Differences between DNA and RNA the only correct ones

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-Thymine is replaces with Uracil in RNA
-RNA has ribose sugar not Deoxyribose sugar

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10
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How is ribose sugar diffrent to deoxyribose sugar?

A

It has more oxygen

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Is DNA always found in the nucleus? If not then where else

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No, mitchondria and chloroplast have it aswell.

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What is RNA?

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Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a single stranded
nucleic acid chain made up of nucleotides.

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13
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What are the three types of RNA

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Transfer RNA
rRNA
mRNA

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14
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What direction does RNA/DNA polymerase run down the strand ALWAYS

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5’-3’ Direction

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What direction is nucleotides being added to the growing strand by RNA polymerase?

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3’-5’ Direction

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