Purine
2 rings, Adenine and Guanine
Pyrimidines
1 ring, Cytosine, Thymine and Uracil
Which carbon of deoxyribose is the deoxy
2
dNTP
d refers to sugar nature, N refers to the base and T refers to the number of phosphates
Chargaff’s rule
A pairs with T, G pairs with C
How are nucleotides connected
The 3’ of one sugar binds to the phosphate on the 5’ of the next leaving the chain with a free 3’ end and an end with a phosphate attached to a 5’
Tm
Melting temperature, the temperature at which half of dsDNA have denatured