Parts that make up a nucelotide
Phosphate group, a five carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base
Adenine pairs with..
Thymine
Cytosine pairs with..
Guanine
James Watson and Francis Crick determined what?
DNA molecule is shaped as a double helix
What bond connects bases together?
Hydrogen bonds
What enzyme unwinds the parent strand?
Helicase
Site where separation and replication occurs
Replication Fork
Function of DNA polymerase
joins individual nucleotides and proofreads
Nucleotides three parts
A phosphate group, a five carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base
Adenine pairs with…
Thymine
Cytosine pairs with…
Guanine
James Watson and Francis Crick did what?
They made a model explaining DNA’s double helix
What bond connects the bases together
Hydrogen bonds
Enzyme that unzips the DNA parent strand?
Helicase
Functions of DNA polymerase
Joins individual nucleotides and proofreads
What are the sides of the double helix made of?
alternating sugar and phosphate molecules
Purines
Adenine and Guanine
Pyrimidines
Thymine and Cytosine
What does Rna have
RNA has uracil, sugar ribose, and is single stranded
process of copying DNA
replication
Semi-conservative
When replication saves one of the original strands
