Biology 1201A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dna Replication, Polynucleotide, Hydroxy Group

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Inheritance of sameness: dna replication and structure definitions. Deoxyribonucleic acid (dna): the large, double-stranded, helical molecule that contains the genetic material of all living organisms. Transformation: the conversion of the hereditary type of a cell by the uptake of dna released by the breakdown of another cell. Each nucleotide consists of the five-carbon sugar deoxyribose; a phosphate group; and one of the four nitrogenous bases adenine (a), guanine (g), thymine (t), and cytosine (c) Two of the bases, adenine and guanine, are purines, nitrogenous bases built from a pair of fused rings of carbon and nitrogen atoms. The other two bases, thymine and cytosine, are pyrimidines, built from a single carbon ring. Chargaff"s rule: the amount of adenine equals the amount of thymine, and the amount of guanine equals the amount of cytosine. Sugar phosphate backbone: structure in a polynucleotide chain that is formed when deoxyribose sugars are linked by phosphate groups in an alternating sugar phosphate sugar phosphate pattern.

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