Elements that make up Nucleic Acids and components of a nucleotide
What elements make up Nucleic acid?
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus
What is the monomer of nucleic acid?
What is a nucleotide
What bond connects the phosphate group to the sugar?
What is a phosphodiester linkage
What does Nucleic acid do inside the cell?
Nucleic acid keeps genetic material in DNA, and then replicates it for cell division
What is so important about Nucleic acids that none of the other macromolecules have?
What is the ability to store genetic information
What are the three main components of a nucleotide?
What are the polymers of Nucleic acid?
What is DNA(deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA(ribonucleic acid)
What bond holds the double helix strands together?
What is a hydrogen bond
What does Nucleic acid do inside of the organism?
It holds the instructions for all genetic information of an organism. Additionally it helps the organism develop and grow.
Why do proteins need nucleic acids in order to exist?
Nucleic acids plays a big role in protein synthesis
What do the carbon numbers in the sugar(Penrose) include?
What are primes
What are multiple nucleotides put together called?
What are polynucleotides
How are nucleotides built up and broken down?
They are built up when the phosphate group, sugars, and nitrogenous combine, and broken down when these groups release from each other.
How long are genes?
What is thousands of nucleotides long
Since phosphate groups attract water, when they are dissolved in wafter they help improve the function of nucleic acid molecules.