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Biology 1306 Chapter 4 Nucleic Acids And The RNA World

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Nucleic acids are made up of which of the following monomers?
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Nucleotides
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What is the difference between a Ribonucleotides and Deoxyribonucleotides?
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Ribonucleotides have a hydroxyl group of the 2 carbon of their sugar subunit.
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What is/are the variable structure of a nucleotide?
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The Sugar and the Base
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Which of the following includes all the pyrimidine's found in RNA and DNA?
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Cytosine, Uracil, Thymine
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When nucleotides polymerize to form a nucleic acid
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A Covalent Bond forms between the sugar of one nucleotide and the phosphate of a second.
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Which of the following descriptions best fits the class of molecules known as nucleotides?
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A nitrogenous base, A phosphate group, A sugar.
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Which of the following are pyrimidine nitrogenous bases?
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Cytosine and Uracil
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Which of the following are purine nitrogenous bases?
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Guanine and Adenine
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The difference between the sugar in DNA and the sugar in RNA is that the sugar in DNA?
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Contains one less oxygen atom.
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Which of the following best describes DNA's secondary structure?
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Double Antiparallel helical strands.
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If one strand of a DNA molecule has the sequence of bases 5'ATTGCA'3, the other complementary strand would have the sequence?
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3'TAACGT'5
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Which of the following statements best summarizes the difference between DNA and RNA?
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DNA nucleotides contain a different sugar than RNA nucleotides.
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One of the primary functions of RNA molecules is to?
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Function in the Synthesis of Proteins.
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RNA is much more diverse in size, shape, and reactivity than DNA?
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True
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DNA is capable of self-replication?
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False