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21 Cards in this Set
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Monomer |
Nucleotide: ribonucleotide (ribose) or deoxyribonucleotide (deoxyribose) |
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Ribose |
5 Carbon (or pentose) sugar found in RNA |
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Deoxyribose |
5 Carbon (or pentose) sugar found in DNA |
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Nucleotide |
Made of a Phosphate group, a pentose sugar and a nitrogenous base |
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Purine |
A double ringed nitrogenous base |
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Pyrimidine |
A single ringed nitrogenous base |
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Adenine |
Purine (double ringed) nitrogenous base -Found in DNA & RNA -Binds to Thymine or Uracil
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Guanine |
Purine (double ringed) nitrogenous base -Found in DNA & RNA -Binds to Cytosine
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Cytosine |
Pyrimidine (single ringed) nitrogenous base -Found in DNA & RNA -Binds to Guanine |
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Thymine |
Pyrimidine (single ringed) nitrogenous base -Found only in DNA
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Uracil |
Pyrimidine (single ringed) nitrogenous base -Found only in RNA |
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RNA |
Ribonucleic Acid -Polymer of ribonucleotides -Single stranded |
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DNA |
Deoxyribonucleic Acid -Polymer of deoxyribonucleotides -Double Stranded |
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Sugar-phosphate backbone |
Created by multiple nucleotides being bound with phosphodiester bonds; between the sugar of one nucleotide and a phosphate of another nucleotide |
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H-bonds |
Found between the bases of the 2 strands of DNA |
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ATP |
Adenosine TriPhosphate -Cellular energy -3 phosphate groups instead of 1 |
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DNA |
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Pyrimidines |
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Purines |
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RNA |
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ATP |
