Nucleotides and Nucleic acid

Question 1

Building blocks of nucleic acids

Answer 1

Nucleotides

Question 2

Energy currency in cellular metabolism

Answer 2

ATP

Question 3

It can also perform catalysis

Answer 3

RNA

Question 4

Component of ribosomes, playing a role in protein synthesis

Answer 4

rRNA

Question 5

Carry a genetic information from a gene to the ribosome

Answer 5

mRNA

Question 6

Translate information in mRNA into an amino acid sequence

Answer 6

tRNA

Question 7

It contains information needed to synthesize functional proteins and RNA

Answer 7

DNA

Question 8

It plays a role in regulation

Answer 8

Nucleotides

Question 9

What are the allosteric effectors

Answer 9

c-AMP and GMP

Question 10

Structural components of many enzyme cofactors

Answer 10

NAD : CoASH

Question 11

A secondary messenger

Answer 11

c-AMP

Question 12

An important enzyme cofactor

Answer 12

NAD

Question 13

A hydride transfer agent or reducing agent

Answer 13

NADH

Question 14

NADH is derived from

Answer 14

Niacin

Question 15

A pentose sugar (5 membered ring)

Answer 15

Ribose

Question 16

An important derivative of ribose is

Answer 16

2’ deoxyribose or deoxyribose

Question 17

An important regulatory nucleotide

Answer 17

Adenosine 3’,5’-cyclic monophosphate

Question 18

A chain of nucleotides making the structure of DNA and RNA

Answer 18

Polynucleotide

Question 19

A chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds

Answer 19

Polypeptide

Question 20

Can form “Hairpin double helix”

Answer 20

DNA

Question 21

How many base pairs per turn

Answer 21

10.5 base pairs

Question 22

The most common conformation for DNA

Answer 22

B form

Question 23

Common for RNA because of different sugar pucker deeper minor groove , shallow major groove

Answer 23

A form

Question 24

Is favored in conditions of low water

Answer 24

A form

Question 25

Narrow, deep minor groove. Major groove hardly existent.

Answer 25

Z form

Question 26

Mother of all biomolecules

Answer 26

RNA