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Nucleic acids - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 5' - 3' and 3' - 5'
    - - Adenine bonded to Thymine and Cytosine bonded to Guanine
  - - - Can accept and donate H bonds.
- - - - Pyrimidines
        
        Uracil (RNA only). Has 1 ring and no H3C.
        
        Thymine (DNA only). Has 1 ring and has H3C.
        
        Cytosine. Has 1 ring and NH2.
      - Purines
        
        Adenine. Has 2 rings and no double bond O. Also only has 5 N altogether.
        
        Guanine. Has 2 rings and a double bond O.
        
        Bigger than pyrimidines
  - - - Formed by the condensation reaction between the OH of the phosphate group and the H of the 3' carbon
      - Can be broken by hydrolysis.