BIOL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Exact Sequence, Pyrimidine, Purine

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Rna + dna primary structures: linear polymers composed of monomers called nucleotides. Dna and mrna function primarily as informational molecules, carrying information in the exact sequence of their nucleotides. Large dna units in association with proteins can be visualized in the light microscope as chromosomes. Rna can function as a catalytic molecule. 3d conformations of dna and rna are different, which is critical to the diff functions of the two types of nucleic acids. A nucleic acid strand is a linear polymer with end-to-end directionality. In all organisms, dna and rna are each made up of only four different nucleotides. All nucleotides consist of an organic base linked to a five-carbon sugar that has a phosphate group attached to the 5" carbon. (in rna, the sugar = ribose. Purines (contain a pair of fused rings): adenine (a, guanine (g) Pyrimidines (contain a single ring): cytosine (c, thymine (t, uracil (u)

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