BSC 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dna Replication, Pyrimidine, Purine

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Nucleic acids, nucleotides, dna, rna, helix, purines, pyrimidines, pentose sugar, All organisms pass dna to offspring when they reproduce. In cells, each dna molecule is organized as a chromosome. Carries part or all of a cell"s genetic information. Pass it from one generation to other generation. To understand these phenomena, we have to understand the chemical structure of. In other words, dna is a polymer (polynucleotides) of many monomers. A nitrogenous base with a purine or a pyrimidine. A purine is connected to a pyrimidine and vice versa, to the opposite nitrogenous base by hydrogen bonds. It is the order of these bases in a nucleic acid that specifies genetic information. Sugar part of dna a pentose sugar with 5 carbon atoms. Small hydroxyl groups hang from the sugar portion of the nucleotide. Dnas have one less o (h & oh), (hence the name deoxy ribose) than rna,

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