Topic 2.6

Question 1

What type of reaction binds nucleotides together to form polymers of DNA and RNA

Answer 1

Polymerization

Question 2

Compare the differences between DNA and RNA

Answer 2

DNA uses deoxribose for sugar while RNA uses ribose
DNA has adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine for bases. RNA has adenine, guanine, uracil and cytosine for bases.
DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded

Question 3

List two reasons Crick and Watson’s elucidation of DNA structure is considered an important discovery

Answer 3

Genes are easier to understand (genetic info is stored)