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Nucleic Acids
Nucleotides
Primary Nucleic Acid Structures
The DNA Double Helix
Replication of DNA Molecules
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The unabbreviated word for DNA.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
100
DNA contains the pentose sugar _.
What is Deoxyribose?
100
The subunit located at the 3' end.
What is the Free Hydroxyl Group?
100
A goes to T as C goes to _
What is G?
100
A human has this many chromosomes per cell.
What is 46?
200
DNA is mainly found in this part of the cell.
What is The Nucleus?
200
A bicyclic structure has two _.
What are Rings?
200
The bonds that link together nucleotide units.
What are Sugar-Phosphate Bonds?
200
The bond that holds together base pairs.
What is A Hydrogen Bond?
200
An individual DNA molecule bound to a group of proteins
What is A Chromosome?
300
The primary function of RNA.
What is To Synthesize Proteins?
300
The only nucleotide base NOT found in DNA.
What is Uracil?
300
The direction in which the nucleic acid sequence is read.
What is From the 5' end to the 3' end?
300
There is is 20% C in DNA, the percentages of G, T and A are _%, _% and _%.
What are 20, 30 and 30?
300
A chromosome has _ % DNA and _% protein by mass.
What are 15 and 85?
400
A polymer in which the monomer units are nucleotides.
What is Nucleic Acid?
400
The three units found in a nucleotide.
What are Base, Sugar and Phosphate?
400
The order in which nucleotides are linked together in a nucleic acid.
What is The Primary Nucleic Acid Structure?
400
Pairs of bases in a nucleic acid structure that can hydrogen-bond to each other.
What are Complementary Bases?
400
A biochemical process by which DNA molecules produce exact duplicates of themselves.
What is DNA Replication?
500
To store and transfer genetic information is the _ of DNA.
What is The Primary Function?
500
A 3-subunit molecule in which pentose sugar is bonded to both a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic base.
What is A Nucleotide?
500
The alternating sugar-phosphate chain in a nucleic acid structure is referred to as this.
What is The Nucleic Acid Backbone?
500
Strands of DNA in a double helix with base pairing such that each base is located opposite its complementary base.
What are Complementary DNA Strands?
500
Specific proteins in the cell that the replicated DNA interacts with.
What are Histones?