Question | Answer |
What are the two types of nucleic acid? | DNA and RNA |
What is the 2 roles of nucleic acid? | Storage and transmitting hereditary information |
What are the 3 types of RNA? | Messenger RNA (mRNA)
Transfer RNA (tRNA)
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) |
What elements make up Nucleic Acid? | Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Phosphorus |
What is the monomer of a nucleic acid? | Nucleotides |
What are the 3 parts that nucleic acid consists of? | phosphate, sugar and base |
What are the 4 bases that make up DNA? | Cytosine (C), Guanine (G), Adenine (A) and Thymine (T) |
What are the 4 bases that make up RNA? | Cytosine (C), Guanine (G), Adenine (A) and Uracil (U) |
What is the sugar joined to the base in nucleotides of DNA called? | deoxyribose |
What is the sugar joined to the base in nucleotides of RNA called? | ribose |
What is the polymer of nucleic acid? | Nucleic Acid (DNA and RNA) |
What are the two roles of nucleic acid in organisms? | storage and transmitting hereditary information. |