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What is the monomer of a Nucleic Acid |
Nucleotides |
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What does a Nucleotide consist of? |
Phosphate, 5-Carbon sugar, Nitrogenous Base |
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Draw 1 Nucleotide |
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What does it mean by a nucleotide becomes Phosphorylated? |
It contains more than 1 phosphate group |
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What does: AMP ADP ATP Stand for? |
Adenosine Monophosphate Adenosine Diphosphate Adenosine Triphosphate |
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Nucleotides help regulate what? |
Metabolic pathways |
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Draw an ATP Molecule |
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What are two main types of Nucleic Acids |
DNA and RNA |
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Define a MacroMolecule |
A large organic molecule |
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Give an example of a macromolecule |
DNA |
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What Is a polynucleotide strand |
A large molecule containing many nucleotides |
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What does a DNA nucleotide consist of? |
Phosphate group, 5-Carbon sugar (deoxyribose) , Nitrogenous Base (A,T,G,C) |
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By what reactions does the components of a nucleotide join by |
Condesation reaction |
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Describe a purine |
Contains 2 rings Adenine and Guanine |
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Describe Pyrimidines |
One ring Thymine, cytosine and Uracil |
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How would you describe the two DNA strands |
Antiparallel |
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What are the Base pairs |
Adenine + Thymine Cytosine + Guanine |
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How are the nitrogenous bases bonded |
Hydrogen Bonds |
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How many hydrogen bonds are between Adenine + Thymine |
2 Hydrogen Bonds |
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How many hydrogen bonds are between Guanine + Cytosine |
3 Hydrogen bonds |
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?Why do Purines always pair with Pyrimidines? |
So that there are equal sized "rungs" on the DNA ladder |
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What carbon on pentose sugar, is the nitrogenous Base bonded to |
CARBON 1 |
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What 2 carbons on a pentose sugar can the phosphate group be bonded to |
CARBON 5 and CARBON 3 |
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In eukaryotic cells, what protein Is DNA wound around into chromosomes? |
Histone |
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Inside mitochondria and chloroplast how is DNA found |
In a loop, without Histone proteins |
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In Prokaryotic cells, how is DNA found? |
DNA is found in a loop (not wound around histone protiens, within the cytoplasm and not enclosed in nucleus |
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What does a nucleoside contain |
Pentose sugar, Nitrogenous Base |
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What is AMP an example of? |
A Nucleotide |
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What is ADP and ATP an example of? |
A Phosphorylated Nucleotide |