BIOL 1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sister Chromatids, Chromatin, Mitosis

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Ribonucleic acid (rna) and deoxyribonucleic acid (dna) are polymers. Each subunit is a nucleotide comprised of: a phosphate group, a five-carbon sugar of pentose, a cyclic, nitrogen-containing base, pyrimidine nucleotides t and c, purine nucleotides a and g phosphodiester bonds. Put these 3 components together to generate the four nucleotides of dna. The purine and pyrimidine nucleotides in polynucleotide chains are connected by. Dna is double-stranded and the strands are antiparallel. The strands are held together by hydrogen bonds between bases on opposing strands. Base pairing is specific and is mediated by hydrogen bonds. Each strand of dna has chemical polarity: 5" end has a free phosphate group, 3" end has a free hydroxyl group. The most common form of dna is called b-dna. Opposing strands are said to be complementary. There are two grooves of different width: the major and minor groove. The first level of condensation packaging dna into nucleosomes.

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