What is in DNA
Sugar, phosphate, 4 nitrogenous base, and deoxyribose
What is in RNA
Sugar, phosphate, ribose
What is in a nucleotide
Phosphate group, pentose sugar, nitrogenous base, 5 ‘ forms phosphodiester bond with 3’
Who is Linus Pauling
Known for winning Nobel prize for discovering structure for a-helix in proteins
Who is Maurice Wilkin and James Watson
Cystallographers working on DNA structure
Franci Crick and James Watson discoveries
DNA molecule is a helix 2nm in diameter-two stands
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Double helix components
Complementary
Connected by h-bonds
Have polarity
Anti parallel