BIOCHEM 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Imidazole, Polynucleotide, Pyrophosphate

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1. 3 nucleic acids nucleic acids are polymeric macromolecules made of monomers called nucleotides two nucleic acids include dna and rna. Dna - composed of double helix containing two polynucleotide strands. 4 nucleotides = a (adenine), t (thymine), g (guanine), c (cytosine) 4 nucleotides = a (adenine), u (uracil), g (guanine), c (cytosine) nucleotides have an organic nitrogenous base, a pentose sugar and phosphate. 1" carbon always linked to a nucleobase - a, t, c or g for dna and a, u, c or g for rna. Rna has oh group linked at 2" carbon. 3" carbon contains linkage to an oh group - extremely important for dna replication. 5" carbon linked to a phosphate which is involved in the phosphodiester link in a growing chain. 1. 8 making dna polynucleotides phosphodiester linkages are between 3" and 5" carbons of neighbouring nucleotides the free phosphate group is 5" and free oh is 3"

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