DNA
Pentose sugar in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
Pentose sugar in RNA.
What is ribose?
The nucleic acid monomer.
The difference between meiosis and mitosis.
What is cell reproduction versus organism reproduction?
What is single nucleotide?
DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
RNA stands for.
What is ribonucleic acid?
This is a chromosome.
What is a tight coil of DNA?
Chromosomes need to be _____ to be read.
What is uncoiled?
Between RNA and DNA, ___ cannot replicate by itself.
What is RNA?
4 nitrogenous bases present in DNA.
What are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine?
4 nitrogenous bases present in RNA.
What are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil?
The number of pairs of chromosomes we have.
What is 23?
The chemical formula for a phosphate group.
What is PO4?
The nitrogenous bases that are not shared by DNA and RNA.
What are thymine and uracil?
The number of complementary strands in DNA.
What is 2?
The m in mRNA stands for.
What is messenger?
The two functions of nucleic acids.
What is information transfer in the cell and across generations of organisms?
When the DNA double helix was proposed.
What is 1953?
What are egg cells and sperm?
The t in tRNA stands for.
What is transfer?
The elements present in nucleic acids.
What are CHONP?
ATP in terms of nucleotides.
What is adenine plus a ribose sugar plus three phosphate groups?
Between RNA and DNA, _____ has the longer chain of nucleotides.
What is DNA?