Structure 2026 Exam
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Answers | New Update
phosphate sugar backbone - ANSWER ✔✔phosphate group attached
to the 5' carbon of a deoxyribose
adenine - ANSWER ✔✔purine; base that pairs with thymine; two ring
structure
guanine - ANSWER ✔✔purine; base that pairs with cytosine; two ring
structure
, thymine - ANSWER ✔✔pyrimidine; base that pairs with adenine; one
ring structure
cytosine - ANSWER ✔✔pyrimidine; base that pairs with guanine; one
ring structure
double helix - ANSWER ✔✔two strands running in opposite
directions that have complementary paired nitrogenous bases
complementary base pairing - ANSWER ✔✔-adenine pairs with
thymine
-cytosine pairs with guanine
chargaff's rule - ANSWER ✔✔A=T and C=G
x-ray diffraction - ANSWER ✔✔an analytical method in which X-rays
change direction on contact with matter, resulting in changes in radiation
intensity, that is used to determine the three-dimensional arrangement of
atoms
phosphodiester bonds - ANSWER ✔✔bonds between phosphate
group and pentose sugar in nucleic acids