allows for complementary base pairing of nucleotides
What is antiparallel?
300
level at which proteins become functional
What is the quaternary level
300
can catalyze its own reactions
What is RNA?
400
when nonpolar molecules are forced together in close proximity inducing an opposite partial charge on the nearby molecule and creating a weak attraction
What is a van der Waal interaction
400
hairpin
What is the secondary structure of RNA?
500
conformational change that brings substrates together in order to interact
What is the induced fit of an enzyme?
500
compensates for the decrease in entropy that comes from creating phosphodiester linkages between monomers