Lecture 9- Nucleic Acids

What is the structure of a nucleotide?

What is a nucleobase?

What is a nucleoside?

What is a nucleotide?

What is a nucleotide called if 2 or 3 phosphates are present?

How is the sugar attached to the nucleobase?

What is a pyrimidine nucleobase?

Which nucleobases are pyrimidine nucleobases?

Why is thymine more stable than uracil?

What are purine nucleobases?

Which bases are purine bases?

Where can the aldopentose sugar ribose be found?

Write equations to show the dephosphorylation and releases energy from ATP

What is the role of cAMP?

What is the role GTP?

What is NAD+?

What is the role of NAD+?

In DNA what bond forms between the phosphate on one nucleotide and the deoxyribose sugar on the next?

What bonds form between the bases on each strand of DNA?

Are the strands in DNA parallel or anti parallel?

What direction are the strands read in?

How many hydrogen bonds form between the complementary base pairs A and T?

How many hydrogen bonds form between the complementary base pairs G and C?

What are genes?

What is the genetic code?

How can DNA be used in molecular biology?

How is RNA different to DNA?

What is the role of mRNA?

What is the role of tRNA?

What is the central dogma?

What type of replication does DNA undergo to produce two identical daughter cells?

What is meant by the "3' end?

What is meant by the "5' end?

What type of bond links amino acids to tRNA molecules?

What doesn't obey the central dogma?

Why don't prion proteins and retroviruses obey the central dogma?