nucleotides

Question 1

what are nucleotides?

Answer 1

building blocks of hereditary material

Question 2

what are nucleotides made up of?

Answer 2

a nitrogenous base covalently bonded to a 5 carbon sugar, which is then covalently bonded to a phosphate group

Question 3

5 different nucleotides make up a class of polymers known as….

Answer 3

nucleic acids

Question 4

what are the 2 types of nucleic acids?

Answer 4

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
ribonucleic acid (RNA)

Question 5

each type of nucleic acid differs in what?

Answer 5

its combination of 5 different nitrogenous bases

Question 6

a single-stranded chain of polynucleotides

Answer 6

RNA

ribonucleic acid

Question 7

a double-stranded chain of polynucleotides

Answer 7

DNA

deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 8

what are the 5 bases?

Answer 8

adenine (a)
thymine (t) 
guanine (g) 
cytosine (c)
uracil (u)

Question 9

the bases adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, when linked to the sugar deoxyribose forms the building blocks of..

Answer 9

DNA

Question 10

the bases adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil, when linked to the sugar ribose, form the building blocks of..

Answer 10

RNA