BIOL 3113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Centromere, Euchromatin, Interphase

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*genes of every cell on earth are made of dna. *cells maintain, replicate and express genetic information carried in dna. *information in genes: copied and transmitted to daughter cell multiple times, contains primarily instructions for making proteins. Consists of two long polynucleotide chains - dna strands. Each strand made of 4 types of nucleotide subunits (linked by phosphodiester bonds sugar-phosphate backbone with n-bases sticking out) Two strands held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases - purines (adenine, guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine) The opposing sugar-phosphate backbones have opposite polarity (antiparallel) *enables the base pairs to be packed in the energetically most favorable arrangement (same width, 1-ring base pairs with 2-ring base same distance between sugar- phosphate backbones along the molecule) *provides the basis for replication of nucleic acids. 2 sugar-phosphate backbones twist around one another form a double helix with 10 bases per helical turn. Base pairs fit together when the two strands are antiparallel (opposite polarity)

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