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Deoxyribonucleic acid
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What are the components of nucleic acids?
The components of nucleic acids are nucleotides, which contain a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base.
What is a key ingredient in both proteins and nucleic acids?
Proteins are made of amino acids. Nucleic acids are made of a sugar (ribose in RNA and deoxyribose in DNA), a phosphate group and nitrogen bases [thymine (or uracil in RNA), cytosine, guanine, and adenine].
Are DNA and rna used to assembled carbohydrates?
No - they are nucleic acids. Carbohydrates are sugars, such as glucose. They are made up of C, H and O. DNA and RNA contain a sugar, ribose (or deoxyribose), but also contain phosphate and a nitrogenous base.
What are the building blocks (or basic monomers) of DNA?
Nucleotides-- made of Deoxyribose (sugar) Phosphate and 1 Nitrogenous base (Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine)
How is ATP like and unlike nucleic acids?
Nucleic acids are a braod category of compounds. Chemically at least, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) contains a adenine ring, a ribose sugar and 3 phosphate molecules. A nucleic acid is composed of a nitrogenous base (purine or pyrimidine), a pentose sugar and a phosphate group. Since adenine, which is itself a purine, can be found in some nucleic acids, the similarities would be the possibility of both containing adenine, both contain a sugar molecule and both contain phosphate molecules. The numbers they each contain would be the difference.
Are there amino acids in nucleic acids?
No. Nucleic acids are formed by a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), a phosphate group and nitrogen base (purines and pyrimidines).
Is a sugar a nucleic acid?
No, although there is a sugar (pentose) in nucleic acids.
Name 2 basic kinds of nucleic acids what sugar does each contain?
Two kinds of nucleic acids are:-RNA/ Ribonucleic Acid-DNA/ Deoxyribonucleic AcidAs there names, RNA contain the sugar ribose and DNA contains the sugar deoxyribose
What are the two polymers of nucleic acids?
DNA's sugar is deoxyribose, and RNA's sugar is ribose. (DNA = deoxyribose nucleic acid, RNA = ribonucleic acid)
Does nucleic acid contain lactose and potassium?
no. nucleic acids have a ribose as its sugar. A ribose is a five carbon sugar. Lactose is a 6 carbon sugar and from this, we can say that it is not a ribose. Nucleic acids contain phosphorus but not potassium.
Describe the characteristics that distinguish nucleic acids from the other major groups of macromolecules.?
- Presence of Pyrimidine and Purine - Nucleic acids store and transmit genetic information that makes them different from other macromolecules. - Nucleic acids contain ribose and deoxyribose sugar connected with bases. - Nucleotides are joined by covalent bonds called Phosphodiester.
What are the components of nucleic acids?
The components of nucleic acids are nucleotides, which contain a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base.
What is a key ingredient in both proteins and nucleic acids?
Proteins are made of amino acids. Nucleic acids are made of a sugar (ribose in RNA and deoxyribose in DNA), a phosphate group and nitrogen bases [thymine (or uracil in RNA), cytosine, guanine, and adenine].
Subunits of nucleic acids?
The monomers of nucleic acid polymers are the nucleotides. Each is composed of a sugar-phosphate backbone and one of four bases as a side group. In RNA the sugar is ribose, in DNA the sugar is deoxyribose.
What is a nucleotide polymer?
Both DNA and RNA are polymers of Nucleic Acids
Are DNA and rna used to assembled carbohydrates?
No - they are nucleic acids. Carbohydrates are sugars, such as glucose. They are made up of C, H and O. DNA and RNA contain a sugar, ribose (or deoxyribose), but also contain phosphate and a nitrogenous base.
What molecules make up nucliec acids?
The individual nucleotides of nucleic acids are composed of a five-carbon sugar, either ribose or deoxyribose, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base.
