Basic components of Nucleusides and nucleotides are called ___.
NITROGENOUS BASES
2 types of NITROGENOUS BASES
Purine (bigger structure, smaller name) & Pyrimidine (smaller structure, long name)
Purine
counterclockwise
Pyrimidine
Clockwise
Nitrogenous Bases
AT - adenine, thymine
CG - cytosine, guanine
U - uracil
Purines
AG
Pyrimidines
TC
If you add sugar (ribose sugar) to your nitrogenous base. unsay porma?
Nucleosides
If naa na sugar,
adenine becomes?
Adenosine
2 types of Nucleosides
RIBONUCLEOSIDE (RNA) & DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE (DNA)
Chemical basis of heredity
DNA
DNA → RNA → PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
T O F
TRUE