BIOL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hydrogen Bond, Base Pair, Polynucleotide

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5" end free phosphate group o(cid:374) the 5" (cid:272)ar(cid:271)o(cid:374) of the terminal sugar. 3" end free h(cid:455)dro(cid:454)(cid:455)l o(cid:374) the 3" (cid:272)ar(cid:271)o(cid:374) of the ter(cid:373)i(cid:374)al sugar. Dna and rna synthesis pro(cid:272)eeds i(cid:374) a 5" to 3" dire(cid:272)tio(cid:374), (cid:374)u(cid:272)lei(cid:272) a(cid:272)ids are (cid:449)ritte(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) 5" to 3". Made up of 2 strands of repeating phosphate-pentose (on the outside) and bases (on the inside) (see first image) The repeating phosphate-pe(cid:374)tose u(cid:374)its are referred to as dna"s (cid:862)(cid:271)a(cid:272)k(cid:271)o(cid:374)e(cid:863) a(cid:374)d do not contain much information. The backbone is on the outside of the double helix (see first image) Orientation of the polynucleotide strands in the double helix is antiparallel (see second image: o(cid:374)e stra(cid:374)d i(cid:374) 5" to 3" a(cid:374)d the other is 3" to 5". Base complementarity describes the interaction between base pairs. If you know the sequence of one strand you can predict the sequence of the other thanks to base-pair complementarity.

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