Check Your Knowledge: Nucleic Acids

DNA and RNA are examples of...

• proteins
• nucleic acids
• carbohydrates
• lipids

What is the monomer of nucleic acids?

• Glycerol
• Monosaccharides
• Amino Acids
• Nucleotides

What are the components of a nucleotide?

• nitrogen base, phosphate group, and pentose sugar
• pentose sugar, purine, and pyrimidine
• nitrogen base and a phosphate group
• DNA, phosphate group, monosaccharide

What is the difference between DNA and RNA from the point of view of the nitrogenous bases that are present in their nucleotides?

• In DNA, nucleotides can be made up of A, T, C, G. In RNA, nucleotides can also contain A, C or G; however, instead of T, they contain U.
• Purine and Pyrimidine
• Pyrimidine: Thymine, Cytosine (Urical)
• DNA, RNA

RNA contains the sugar...

• Deoxyribose
• Glucose
• Ribose
• Lipids

What sugar is found in DNA?

• Glucose

• Ribose

• Deoxyribose

• Fructose

Which of these is true about RNA?

• Has a double double strand

• Has a single strand

• Contains thymine

Which is the correct pairing?

• A-C
• A-T
• A-G

Which is the correct pairing?

• T-C
• G-T
• G-C

Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine are what?

• Phosphate groups

• Sugars

• Nucleotides

• nitrogen bases