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Nucleic Acids
Nucleic Acids
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/23/2012

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Term
What is the job of nucelic acids
Definition
Store and transmit hereditary info
Term
Part are the 3 parts of a nucleotide
Definition

pentose-sgar

phosphate group

nitrogenous base

Term
5 nitrogenous bases
Definition

Adenine

Thymine

Guanine

Cystine

Term
What is a 2 ring nitrogenous base called
Definition
purine
Term
Whatare the purines
Definition
A and G
Term
What is a 1 ring nitrogenous bases called
Definition
pyrimidine
Term
What are the phyrimidines
Definition
C and T and U
Term
Differences between DNA and RNA
Definition

The pentose sugar in DNA was deoxyribose and RNA was  ribose

 

DNA had thymine and RNA had Uracil pyrimidine bases

Term
What is DNA to RNA called
Definition
transcription- the RNA is the messenger
Term
what is RNA to protein called
Definition
translation
Term
Where does translation occur
Definition
ribosomes
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