Nucleic Acids CFU Exit Ticket

The monomer, building block, of DNA and RNA; made up of a sugar, phosphate, and nitrogenous base

• Amino Acid
• Fatty Acid
• Nucleotide
• Monosaccharide

Circle one nucleotide on the DNA molecule

Compare and Contrast DNA and RNA

Groups:

(a) DNA Only

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(b) Similarities between DNA and RNA

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(c) RNA Only

• nucleotides

• nucleic acid

• single helix

• double helix

• Adenine Guanine Cytosine

• one strand

• Uracil

• make proteins

• Thymine

• Ribose sugar

• Deoxyribose sugar

• two strands

Transformed bacteria and determined that only DNA will be transformed and not RNA or proteins.

• Mendel

• Griffith

• Avery

• Hershey and Chase

Who studied bacteriophages?

• Mendel

• Griffith

• Avery

• Hershey and Chase

Figured out the amount of A, T, G, and C that many different organisms have

• Chargaff

• Franklin

• Watson and Crick

• Hershey and Chase

The figure shows the percentage of bases in a DNA sample. How much thymine should you expect to find in the sample?

• 44%

• 28%

• 24%

• 22%

Adenine (A) bonds with ______________

• Guanine (G)

• Cytosine (C)

• Thymine (T)

• Adenine (A)

Thymine pairs with

• Adenine (A)

• Cytosine (C)

• Guanine (G)

• Thymine (T)

Cytosine pairs with

• Adenine (A)

• Thymine (T)

• Guanine (G)

• Cytosine (C)