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Chemically, 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 bases. It is the sequence of these four bases along the backbone that encodes information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins.Within cells, DNA is organized into long structures called chromosomes, Within the chromosomes, chromatin proteins such as histones compact and organize DNA

A DNA structure is basically what genes are meant to be the DNA model stands for deoxribosenuleic acid

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How much DNA does a human share with a potato?

Humans share very little with a potato. Chromosomes are a collection of DNA woven around protein. A chromosome may contain as many as 100,000 to billions of nucleotides in one chain. Chimpanzee and humans share a very SIMILAR DNA pattern, where as a potato and a human being don't. So although they both have 48 chromosomes, their DNA STUCTURE is vastly different.


Are flagella and chromatin related?

Technically yes, but only in the sense that without chromatin, you can't have flagella. Here is why: Chromatin is a structure of DNA. A cell is replicates, either by meiosis or mitosis, it first collects its DNA into organized structures to make the equal transfer between the two daughter cells easier. These structures, made of tightly coiled, inaccessable, highly organized bundles of DNA, are called chromatin. Once the cell divides, the chromatin unwinds, allowing the cell to access the DNA code again. Flagella are an external stucture on a cell's membrane. They are composed of proteins, which are made using an amino acid sequence encoded in the DNA. So, without the DNA (which has at some point been bundled into chromatin), you can't have flagella.


What are the four enzymes involved in DNA replication and repair?

The four enzymes involved in DNA replication and repair are DNA polymerase, DNA helicase, DNA ligase, and DNA primase. DNA polymerase synthesizes new DNA strands, DNA helicase unwinds the double helix, DNA ligase joins the Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand, and DNA primase synthesizes RNA primers for DNA polymerase to begin replication.


What enzyme is used to join DNA nucleotides?

In DNA replication, DNA polymerase III is the enzyme which joins the DNA nucleotides together via phospodiester bonds.DNA Ligase is the enzyme that seals gaps in DNA during DNA Replication.DNA Ligase is the enzyme that seals gaps in DNA during DNA Replication.


Is DNA transciption is another word for DNA replication?

They are completely different processes in the central dogma. DNA replication is the replication of DNA into DNA by DNA polymerases. Trancription is the transcription of DNA into RNA by RNA polymerase.

Related Questions

Which letter does not represent one of the possible bases in the DNA stucture?

B


What letters A B C G does not represent one of the possable basis in the DNA structure?

The letter B does not represent one of the possible basis in the DNA stucture. The letters A represent Adenine, G represent Guanine , C represent Cytosine and the 4th is T for Thymine.


What is an atomic stucture?

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Can zommbies exist?

They cant exsist because u hve to change the moluculure struckture of dna which is impossible cuz u change a least one part of the dna stucture it will collapse or turn into ash and it will never happen no matter wut people say it wont happen.


What are the three stucture diffrences of dna and rna?

One key difference is that DNA is double-stranded while RNA is typically single-stranded. Another difference is that DNA contains deoxyribose sugar in its backbone, while RNA contains ribose sugar. Lastly, DNA contains thymine (T) as one of its nitrogenous bases, while RNA contains uracil (U) in place of thymine.


What is text stucture?

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A long hairlike stucture used for movement?

vovuoles


What does pilliar mean?

A slender upright stucture,cloumn


What is the worlds tallest stucture in the world?

Burj Khalifa


During interphase which stucture of a cell is duplicated?

chromosome


What stucture joins england and France?

the Sydney Harbour bridge


What is the optimal capital structure?

optimal capital stucture is that where the firm value is high and the wacc of the firm is low and that capital structure a firm can follow constantly and that capital stucture not become a burdon on firm.