Nucleic acids

In this topic

• Discovery and the nucleotide
• The double helix of DNA
• What DNA does, and replication
• RNA, ATP and the calculations

Key terms

• Nucleic acid
• Nucleotide
• Purines
• Pyrimidines
• Deoxyribose
• Phosphodiester bond
• Complementarity
• Chargaff's rules
• Antiparallel arrangement
• Replication
• Anticodon
• Macroergic bond

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