Nucleic acids
Nucleic acids What are they? What do they do? What is it made of? DNA and RNA What do they do? What is it made of? Nucleotides
nucleotides Three parts:
Sugar and phosphate
Bases A,G,C, and T are found in DNA A,G,C, and U are found in RNA
Base Pairing Held together with hydrogen bonds.
DNA untwisted
Model building CTACGGATG 18 Black T’s = deoxyribose sugar 9 White sticks = hydrogen bonds 18 White tubes = phosphate 5 Red tubes = guanine 4 Green tubes = adenine 4 Blue tubes = thymine 5 Black tubes = cytosine CTACGGATG