1
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What does DNA stands for?
A
Deoxyribonucleic acid
1
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What is a nucleotide?
A
Each building block of a DNA molecule
2
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What are the components of a nucleotide?
A
Deoxyribose sugar, phosphate sugar, nitrogenous base
3
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What are the complementary base pairing rules?
A
A goes to T
G goes to C
4
Q
Which bases are purines? Which are pyrimidines? How they different?
A
A and G have 2 rings purines
T and C have 1 ring pyrimidines
5
Q
Describe the structure of the DNA molecule
A
The DNA structure back bone is made out of sugar and phosphate. The shape of it is called a double helix (shape)
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