BIOL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Guanine, Internal Control, Thymine

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Once the structure of dna was known, researches began to investigate how information from. Rna was shown to be abundantly present in all cells and chemically similar to dna, but its function was unclear. Cell structure suggested a role for rna in protein synthesis (i. e dna in eukaryotic cells resides in the nucleus, while protein synthesis takes place in the cytoplasm) Rna nucleotides are composed of a sugar, nucleotide base, and one or more phosphate groups, with two critical differences compared to dna nucleotides o. The bases adenine, guanine, and cytosine are the same, but thymine is replaced by uracil o. The sugar ribose is used rather than deoxyribose. The similar sugars in rna and dna lead to formation of nearly identical sugar-phosphate backbones in the molecules. Rna strands are assembled by formation of phosphodiester bonds between the 5" phosphate of one nucleotide and the 3" hydroxyl of the adjacent one.

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