Ch. 6 honors bio quiz

What are nucleic acids?

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What are genes?

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What are proteins?

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

What are the 2 types of nucleic acid?

What is a nucleotide?

Know the basic structure of a nucleotide (for DNA and RNA).

Know the DNA structure. a. What is a double helix? b. What is the backbone composed of? What types of bonds hold the backbone together? c. What is in the middle of the “ladder”? What type of bonds hold these together?

What are the complementary base pair rules?

What are purines? What are pyrimidines? Give examples of each.

How many H-bonds hold together A and T? How many H-bonds hold together C and G?