BIOL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maurice Wilkins, The Double Helix, Complementary Dna
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The two main functions of dna are protein synthesis, manages cellular functions, and genes, contains hereditary material. The structure of dna determines the function of dna. There are three main parts to dna: phosphate, deoxyribose, nitrogenous base. Without franklin"s knowledge, wilkins shared the photo (known as photo 51 to. In 1953, crick and watson determined that the structure of dna is a double helix. Nucleotides are the monomers of nucleic acids. There is an equal percentage of adenine to thymine as well as an equal percentage of. Hydrogen bonds connect the complementary dna strands. The opposite ends are designated as 5" and 3". The strands are antiparallel meaning the strands are positioned in different directions. The strands are complementary as the nucleotide sequence in one strand will determine the sequence of the other stand. There are three types of rna that work to produce proteins: messenger rna (mrna), ribosomal rna (rrna), transfer rna (trna)
