Nucleic Acids

•DNADNA

•RNARNA

•The building blocks The building blocks of nucleic acids are of nucleic acids are called called NUCLEOTIDESNUCLEOTIDES

Nucleic acidsNucleic acids

•NucleotidesNucleotides: monomers of : monomers of nucleic acids.nucleic acids.

•All nucleic acids consist of many nucleotides bonded together.

NucleotideNucleotide

•1. Sugar: 5-1. Sugar: 5-carbon ribose or carbon ribose or deoxyribose deoxyribose

•2. Phosphate 2. Phosphate group group

•3. Nitrogen base 3. Nitrogen base

NucleotideNucleotide

Nucleotides

DNA Structure• Sugar=

Deoxyribose

• Specific Base Pairing

• Adenine-Thymine

•Guanine-Cytosine

• Forms a double Helix Structure

RNA structure

•Sugar= Ribose

•Thymine gets replaced by Uracil

•Single stranded

Functions

•DNA is used to store genetic information

•It is replicated before cell division

•DNA is very important so it is stored in the nucleus.

•It never leaves the nucleus

Functions

•Your DNA stores the code for your proteins, which exhibit your “traits”

•The DNA gets converted to RNA in order to move out into the cytoplasm

•In the cytoplasm it meets up with the ribosome, where it can synthesize proteins

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