SAS #6

Question 1

Is an unbranched polymer containing the monomer units called nucleotides

Answer 1

Nucleic acids

Question 2

Is a nucleotide polymer in which each of the monomers contain deoxyribose and a phosphate group

Answer 2

Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA

Question 3

What are the two types of nucleic acids?

Answer 3

Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA
Rbonucleic acid or RNA

Question 4

A nucleotide polymer in which each of the monomers contain ribose and the phosphate group

Answer 4

Ribonucleic acid or RNA

Question 5

Who discovered nucleic acids in 1869 while studying the nuclei of white blood cells?

Answer 5

Friedrich Miescher

Question 6

Who coined DNA molecule as three dimensional double helix structure?

Answer 6

• James Dewey Watson
• Francis Crick

Question 7

What is the type of strand of the DNA?

Answer 7

Double helix with anti-parallel and complementary strands

Question 8

What is the type of strand of RNA

Answer 8

Single strand

Question 9

What is the length of strands of the DNA?

Answer 9

Longer

Question 10

What is the length of strands of RNA?

Answer 10

Shorter

Question 11

What is the location of the DNA?

Answer 11

Found in the nucleus with a small amount also present in mitochondria

Question 12

What is the location of the RNA?!

Answer 12

Forms in the nucleus but then moves into the specialized region of the cytoplasm

Question 13

It is a primary function of DNA?

Answer 13

To replicate and store

Question 14

What is the primary function of RNA?

Answer 14

Converts the genetic formula contain dna to a format used to build proteins

Question 15

What is the sugar unit of DNA?

Answer 15

Deoxyribose

Question 16

What is the sugar unit of RNA?

Answer 16

Ribose