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Deoxyribose
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Twisted ladder shape, formed by two strands of nucleotides twisted around each other.
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Phosphate Group
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An inorganic chemical is a salt of phosphoric acid.
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Nucleotides
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A subunit of nucleic acid formed from a simple sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.
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Peptide Chain
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A chain of amino acids joined together through peptide bonds.
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Ribose
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A sugar of the pentose class that occurs widely in nature as a constituent of nucleosides and several vitamins and enzymes.
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Nitrogen base pairing rule
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A with T: the purine adenine (A) always pairs with the pyrimidine thymine (T) C with G: the pyrimidine cytosine (C) always pairs with the purine guanine (G)
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Supercoil
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Form (a substance) into a super helix.
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DNA
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A double-stranded nucleic acid that contains the genetic information for cell growth, division, and function.
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RNA
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Ribonucleic acid, a nucleic acid present in all living cells. Its principal role is to act as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins, although in some viruses RNA rather than DNA carries the genetic information
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