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Nucleic acid - Coggle Diagram
Nucleic acid
RNA (ribonucleic acid) Ch 3
Ribose sugar
Phosphate group
Single strand
Phosphodiester bond
Sugar-Phosphate backbone
Nucleotide numbering system
Ch 11
Base attached to 1’ carbon on sugar
Phosphate attached to 5’ carbon on sugar
Sugar carbons are 1’ to 5’
Bases
Guanine (G)
Cytosine (C)
Pyrimidines
Adenine (A)
Purines
Uracil (U)
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) Ch 3
Deoxyribose sugar
Bases
guanine (G)
Cytosine (C)
Chargaff's rule
Base pairing Ch11
Ball-and-stick model by Watson and Crick Ch 11
Purines
Adenine (A)
Thymine (T)
pyrimidines
Phosphate group
Features Ch11
Double stranded
Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction Ch11
Sugar Phosphate Backbone
Phosphodiester bond
helical structure
Sugar-phosphate backbone
Bases on the inside
Stabilized by H-bonding
Specific base-pairing
~10 nts per helical turn
Antiparallel strands
Other stand 3’ to 5’
One strand 5’ to 3’
Macromolecule Ch3
Responsible for the storage, expression, and transmission of genetic information
Ch3