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What is the sugar phosphate supporting structure of the DNA double helix called?
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∙ 6y ago
The sugar-phosphate supporting structure of the DNA double helix is called the backbone. This is why the DNA is commonly referred to as a double helix.
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∙ 15y agoIt is called the sugar-phosphate backbone.
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∙ 12y agoDeoxyribose is the name of the sugar but the entire strand consists of PO4 and deoxyribose attached to a nitrogenous base.
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Which best describe the structure of DNA?
(Apex) Sugar-phosphate backbones with bases on the inside.
Each molecule of DNA is called What?
the whole strand is called a double helix a individual molecule made up of... a sugar a phosphate a base is called necleotide.
What best describes the structure of DNA?
surgar-phosphate back bone with bases on the inside. Apex
What two things make up the backbone of a DNA molecule?
DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called nucleotides, with backbones made of sugars and phosphate groups joined by ester bonds. These two strands run in opposite directions to each other and are therefore anti-parallel. Attached to each sugar is one of four types of molecules called nucleobases (informally, bases). It is the sequence of these four nucleobases along the backbone that encodes information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic acid RNA in a process called transcription.
What molecules form the sides of the double helix?
Phosphate and sugar.
What is the sugar-phosphate supporting structure of the DNA double helix is called?
The sugar-phosphate supporting structure of the DNA double helix is called the backbone. This is why the DNA is commonly referred to as a double helix.
What is the supporting structure of the DNA double helix?
The supporting structure of the DNA double helix is called the sugar-phosphate backbone.
What is the overall structure of the DNA molecule?
The physical structure is called a double-helix.
How many double bonds are present in the best resonance structure of the phosphate ion?
one
The structure of DNA is described as a?
Double helix - with a deoxyribose (sugar) and phosphate backbone, and nitrogenous bases in the centre.
What is structure of DNA?
DNA is a double helix formed by base pairs attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone.
what Describe the structure of the DNA molecule?
a DNA molecule is made up of a phosphate, sugar and base A double Helix Strand
Describe The structure of the double helix?
The structure of a DOUBLE HELIX is called the sugar phosphate backbone and gives the double helix its crisscrossing spiral appearance and it also has the job of holding everything together on the double helix, [Ex.: The sugar phosphate backbone is like the sides of a ladder, its what the bars in the middle of the ladder are attached to, (Bars= HYDROGEN BONDS) and without the sides of the ladder (without the sugar phosphate backbone) the middle bars can't make up the ladder (just like hydrogen bonds can't make up a double helix without something supporting it, not including the other parts of a double helix such as the nitrogenous bases, the nucleotides, the phosphate, and the sugar KNOWN AS DEOXYRIBOSE FOUND ONLY IN A DOUBLE HELIX.)]A single helix sugar is different from a double helix sugar, a single helix sugar is called ribose and a double helix sugar is called deoxyribose.
What is the role of sugar phosphate in DNA?
As the phosphate group has a negative repulsion due to the negative charge on oxygen it cause the DNA to bent to the double helix "spiral" structure as we know it - by Matouš Janda
Which best describe the structure of DNA?
(Apex) Sugar-phosphate backbones with bases on the inside.
What is the DNA twisted structure called?
AnswerThe "twisted ladder" shape of DNA is called a double helix.
What best describes the structure of a DNA molecule?
A double helix of two strands of DNA linked together with sugar-phosphate backbones with bases on the inside.
