Miscellaneous I
Watson-Crick's system that explains replication and mutations.
What is the complementary base-pairing system?
The acronym for nucleic acids.
What is chonp?
The 3 components of a nucleotide.
What is the phosphate group, the sugar, and the nitrogenous base?
An exclusive DNA nitrogenous base and an exclusive RNA nitrogenous base, respectively.
What is thymine and uracil?
The chemical bond connecting deoxyribose or ribose to the phosphate group.
What is the phosphodiester bond?
Chemical bond connecting both DNA strands via the nitrogenous bases.
What is a hydrogen bond?
The way the strands are running in a double helix.
What are running in the opposite direction or antiparallel?
The only difference between deoxyribose and ribose.
What is deoxyribose having one less oxygen than ribose?
What is ribose having one more oxygen than deoxyribose?
Double ring nitrogenous bases.
What are purines: adenine and guanine?
Single ring nitrogenous bases.
What are pyrimidines: cytosine, thymine, and uracil?
The monomer and polymer of nucleic acids, respectively.
What is a nucleotide and a polynucleotide?
Chemical reaction to break down polynucleotides.
What is hydrolysis reaction?
Pentose sugar in ATP equal to the pentose sugar in RNA.
What is ribose?
The two most important nucleic acids.
What is DNA and RNA?
3 differences between DNA and RNA.
What is DNA being double-stranded, having thymine nitrogenous base, and deoxyribose as its sugar?
What is RNA being single-stranded, having uracil nitrogenous base, and ribose as its sugar.
The components of a DNA strand and an RNA strand, respectively.
What is deoxyribose and the phosphate group for DNA and ribose and the phosphate group for RNA?
The 2 scientists awarded the Nobel prize for the discovery of the structure of the DNA double-helix.
Who are Watson and Crick?
The chemical composition of ATP.
What are 3 phosphate groups, a ribose sugar, and adenine?
What ATP becomes after losing one and two phosphate groups.
What are ADP (Adenosine diphosphate) and AMP (adenosine monophosphate)?
The origin of mutations.
What are mismatches in the complementary-base pairing mechanism?
Reaction that takes place during DNA nucleotide bonding.
What is dehydration synthesis?
An energy monomer or nucleotide.
What is ATP?
AMP is identical to this nucleotide.
What is RNA nucleotide?
The nickname for the strands.
What is the sugar-phosphate backbone?
Relatively weak chemical bond that allows the two strands of the helix to separate.
What is a hydrogen bond?