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10 Cards in this Set
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What is the full name of DNA?
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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What is DNA?
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DNA is a long molecule made of nucleotides
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What are DNA’s 3 main components?
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-Nitrogenous base,
- 5 Carbon sugar (Deoxyribose), - Phosphate groups |
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What is DNA a form of?
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The DNA is a form of a double helix
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What would happen if you were to straighten it out?
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It would be like a ladder
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What makes up the outside of the ladder?
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Phosphate groups and the ribose
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What makes up the “rung”?
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Nitrogenous base
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What are the four nitrogenous bases in DNA?
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-Adenine (A),
-Thymine (T), -Guanine (G), -Cytosine (C) |
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Can nitrogenous bases pair up in random?
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NO! Nitrogenous bases can only pair together in certain ways
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How do nitrogenous bases pair? Example?
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-Adenine-Thymine (A-T)
-Guanine-Cytosine (G-C) - Ex.: G A T T A C A |
