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The 'nucleic acid' part comes from early observations1(869) that there was a weakly acidic product in extracts of the nucleus from cells in wound pus. At this time, it was never suspected that DNA would contain the genetic information of the cell (it was assumed that proteins would do that).
'Deoxyribo' means 'Deoxy-ribose', since all nucleotides (the units that make up a DNA/RNA strand) contain a ribose sugar, which attaches to the base (adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine or uracil) and to a phosphate group. In DNA, the ribose sugar is missing an oxygen from a hydroxyl group (on carbon 2), giving it its name deoxyribonucleic acid.
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What forms part of the important life sustaining molecules such as DNA and RNA?
Phosphorus is essential to living organisms because it forms a part of vital molecules such as DNA and RNA.
What forms part of the important life-sustaining molecules such as DNA and RNA?
Phosphorus
What kind of molecules are transcripts?
DNA Molecules
What is the main difference between DNA helicases and DNA molecules?
DNA helicases are proteins, while DNA molecules are nucleotides.
How does DNA molecules differ from daughter DNA molecules?
Daughter moloqules are newer than DNA moloqules
What part of the DNA molecules is DNA named after?
DNA is named DNA because it is de-oxy ribo nucleic acid. In contrast to RNA, DNA doesnt have 2'-oxygen in the ribose sugar hence it is stable than RNA. Chemically DNA is the same for any genes that code for different proteins.
What forms part of the important life sustaining molecules such as DNA and RNA?
Phosphorus is essential to living organisms because it forms a part of vital molecules such as DNA and RNA.
What is the relationship between chromosomes and DNA molecules?
Chromosomes are complete molecules of DNA and its attached proteins. A chromosome carries part or all of an organisms genes.
What is the part of the DNA which it is named?
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What forms part of the important life-sustaining molecules such as DNA and RNA?
Phosphorus
Circular DNA molecule that is not part of the chromosome in bacterial cells?
Those circular DNA molecules are called Plasmids.widely used in Recombinent DNA Technology
What kind of molecules are transcripts?
DNA Molecules
What is the main difference between DNA helicases and DNA molecules?
DNA helicases are proteins, while DNA molecules are nucleotides.
How does DNA molecules differ from daughter DNA molecules?
Daughter moloqules are newer than DNA moloqules
The name of the five-carbon sugar that makes up a part of the backbone of molecules of DNA is what?
Deoxyribose.
DNA replications begins in areas of DNA molecules called what?
DNA replication begins in areas of DNA molecules are called origins of replication.
Rna molecules are produced by copying part of the nucleotide sequence of DNA into a complementary sequence in rna?
transcription
