Essays Tagged: "Nitrogenous base"
DNA - The Thread of Life
se, a phosphate group that is joined to one end of the sugar molecule, and one of several different nitrogenous bases linked to the opposite end of the deoxyribose. There are 4 nitrogen bases called a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Science: Biology: DNA
se, a phosphate group that is joined to one end of the sugar molecule, and one of several different nitrogenous bases linked to the opposite end of the deoxyribose. There are 4 nitrogen bases called a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis; Outline
molecule make up of three basic parts: a 5-carbon sugar called deoxyribose, a phosphategroup, and a nitrogenous, or nitrogen-containing, base.DNA contains four nitrogenous bases. Two of the nitrogenou ... ase pairing, to reconstruct the other half, the strands are said tobe complementary. There are four nitrogenous bases in DNA. Each strand of the doublehelix of DNA serves as a template, or pattern, ag ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
DNA What is it?
xyribose. Attached to one end of the sugar is a phosphate group, and at the other is one of several nitrogenous bases. DNA contains four nitrogenous bases. The first two, adenine and guanine, are doub ... pyrimidine compounds. (Miller, 141) Four types of DNA nucleotides can be formed, depending on which nitrogenous base is involved.The phosphate group of each nucleotide bonds with a carbon from the deo ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
DNA
acids that are made up of long units of called nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of three parts, a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and a phosphate group. Each nucleotide is represented by an A, T, G, or C ... and a phosphate group. Each nucleotide is represented by an A, T, G, or C to stand for the type of nitrogenous base that particular nucleotide contains. The nitrogenous bases that are contained in DN ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
eoxyribose.Attached to one end of the sugar is a phosphate group, and at the other is oneof several nitrogenous bases. DNA contains four nitrogenous bases. The first two,adenine and guanine, are doubl ... pyrimidine compounds. (Miller, 141) Four types ofDNA nucleotides can be formed, depending on which nitrogenous base is involved.The phosphate group of each nucleotide bonds with a carbon from the deo ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Notes explaining the structure of DNA, replication process of DNA, how mutations work in DNA, and the Polymerase chain reaction process
-DNA is a polymer of nucleotides-Each nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and a phosphate group-The sugar in DNA is a pentose sugar called deoxyrib ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
DNA, nucleotides, chromosomes, nitrogen bases and genes: Structures/Funtions of each.
hape is a "double-helix." The outsides are called sugar phosphate backbones. The inside is the four nitrogenous bases. These bases are paired together: Adenine (A) is paired with Thymine (T) and Cytos ... pes of nucleotides can make up DNA.Structure: Each nucleotide has three parts; a phosphate group, a nitrogenous base, and a sugar. The phosphate group is phosphorous atoms surrounded by four oxygen at ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
DNA And Society
necessary tasks to ensure the stability of life. DNA is made up of 3 components; a phosphate group, nitrogenous base, and a five-carbon sugar. Together these components form nucleotides, which in turn ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
DNA and Proteins.
phosphate group. There are four different types of nucleotides found in DNA, differing only in the nitrogenous base. The four nucleotides are given one-letter abbreviations as shorthand for the four ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Structure of DNA
r. The "sides" of this "ladder" are long units called nucleotides and are made up of three parts; a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and a phosphate group. The sides of the ladder or the nucleotides from th ...
Subjects: Science Essays
The Structure of DNA
ns of nucleotides (polymers of nucleic acid eachcomposed of a phosphate, a five carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base) that spiral to formthe double helix shape. The nucleotides that forms the DNA stru ... heir sugar-phosphate components face the outside and form the backbone of thestructure, whereas the nitrogenous bases face inward. These bases are not all the same,there are four types in DNA: Adenine ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Hydrolysis
atic bases are planar and they form stacks. These stacks are parallel to the axis of the helix. The nitrogenous bases occupy the core of the helix whereas sugar-phosphate chains are exposed at the per ... They also catalyze biological reactions by simply binding with organic molecules involved.Figure 4. Nitrogenous Bases of RNA (left) and DNA (right) [3]In accordance with Chargaff's rule, base pairing ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry