F222 - 2.1.1.1 - DNA

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what are the 3 components of a nucleotide
phosphate, five carbon sugar, organic base
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What does DNA store?
genetic information
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Where do you find DNA?
chromosomes
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where are chromosomes?
in the nucleus of the cell
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What are the two purine bases
adenine and guanine
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what are the two pyrimidine bases?
thymine and cytosine
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What reaction joins the nucleotides?
condensation
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More than one nucleotide joined together forms a?
polynucleotide
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How many polynucleotides make a strand of DNA?
two
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Where do the bonds form to join two polynucleotide chains?
between the bases
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What bonds form between the bases of a DNA strand?
hydrogen bonds
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What does Adenine pair with in a DNA strand?
thymine
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What base pairs with Cytosine?
Guanine
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How many hydrogen bonds form between the base Cytosine and Guanine?
three
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How many bonds form between the base Adenine and Thymine?
two
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The DNA bases only pair with specific bases, what is this also known as?
complimentary base-pairing
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What shape is DNA?
double helix
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What is the way the DNA replicates called?
semi-conservative replication
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In which stage of the cell cycle dose semi-conservative replication of DNA happen?
The S (synthesis) phase
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What cases the hydrogen bonds to break during the unwinding of the DNA?
the enzyme DNA helicase
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What happens to the exposed bases of the DNA?
new nucleotides pair up according to the complementary base-pairing rules
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What enzyme pairs up the new nucleotides?
DNA polymerase
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What bond forms between the fire carbon sugar and the phospate of the next?
phosphodiester
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