Nucleic acids are polymers of monomers called…
A covalent bond that holds nucleotides together.
Polymer of nucleotides that has deoxyribose sugar.
Nitrogenous Bases
Two DNA strands that spiral around one another
Phosphodiester Linkage
Adenine and Guanine
Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil, Adenine, Guanine
Double helix
Nulceotides
Purine
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Pyrimidine
Parallel strands but oriented in opposite directions.
Each cell’s entire set of DNA instructions.
Polymer of nucleotides that has ribose sugars.
# of A = # of T bases # of C = # of G bases
Ribonucleic Acid
Gene
Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil
Genome
Chargaff’s Rules
Antiparallel
Specific sequences of nucleotides that code for proteins.