BIO 1140 Lecture Notes - Okazaki Fragments, Primase, Lysis

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Dna (deoxyribonucleic acid); one of the nucleic acids hereditary material in humans and most organisms. Dna found in the cell nucleus where it"s called nuclear dna. Dna can also be found in the mitochondria, mitochondrial dna or mtdna. Stored as a code made up of four chemical bases. Each nucleotide consists of a 5 carbon sugar (deoxyribose), a nitrogen containing base attached to the sugar and a phosphate group. 2. sugar backbone; only dna, in rna it will just be ribose sugar. Rna has a hydroxyl-oh group, but missing in dna). Deoxyribose sugar of dna has 5 carbons and 3 oxygen"s. The oh groups on the 5" and 3" carbons link the phosphate groups to form the. 3. phosphate group; other repeating part of the dan backbone. Phosphate attached to sugar molecule in place of the . Rna; single strand, with strands folding to compact themselves into the tight space of the cell.

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