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DNA & RNA
Mixed
Nucleic Acids
DNA Replication
Nucleotides
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What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribosnucleic acid
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An enzyme responsible for unwinding the double helix.

DNA helicase

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Where is DNA primarily found?
What is the nucleus
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The base of adenine bonds to what?
What is thymine
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Three subunit molecules in which a pentose sugar is bonded to a phosphate group and a nitrogen base
What is a nucleotide
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DNA's primary function.
What is to store and transfer genetic information
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A nucleic acid monomer is called:

A Nucleotide

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RNA contains this pentose sugar.
What is ribose
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What kind of bonds hold together base pairs?
What are hydrogen bonds
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Name all 3 units found in a nucleotide (In alphabetical order )
What is Base, Phosphate, Sugar.
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Primary function of RNA.
What is to synthesize proteins
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Which of the following is NOT one of the nitrogenous bases found in DNA?

a. Adenine

b. Cytosine

c. Guanine

d. Thymine

e. Uracil

e. Uracil

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DNA contains this pentose sugar.
What is 2-deoxyribose
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What is the enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix?
What is DNA helicase
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the subunit found at the 5' end
What is phosphate
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One key difference between RNA and DNA
What is RNA is single stranded while DNA is double stranded, RNA is found in both nucleus and cytoplasm while DNA is only in nucleus, DNA contains deoxyribose while RNA contains ribose
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Which enzyme is responsible for laying down the daughter nucleotides during DNA replication?

a. DNA helicase

b. DNA ligase

c. DNA Polymerase

d. RNA Polymerase

c. DNA Polymerase

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The kind of interaction that holds the two strands of DNA together
What are hydrogen bonds
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The direction that DNA polymerase reads DNA
What is 3'-5'
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The pentose sugar found in RNA
What is ribose
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What are the backbone of a DNA molecule?

Deoxyribose and phosphate group

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A phosphodiester bond links:

A sugar and phosphate group

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The 5 nitrogen-containing heterocyclic bases are categorized into these two groups.
What are pyrimidines and purines
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The way that DNA insures that it makes an exact copy
What is semi conservative replication
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Which direction is the nucleic acid sequence made?
What is 5' to 3'