WorksheetsNucleic acids
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 3mins
The amino acid sequence of a polypeptide is programmed by a unit of inheritance called a (a)
Gene is made up of a type of nucleic acids called (a)
The monomer for nucleic acids is called (a)
State all the components of the monomer of nucleic acids.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
Phosphodiester bond is type of covalent bond formed between between adjacent nucleotides.
Formed between the phosphate group on the 3' carbon of one nucleotide and the hydroxyl on the 5'carbon on the next.
The backbone is negatively charged due to a negative charge on each pentose sugar.
In the DNA double helix, the two backbones run in opposite 5' to 3' directions from each other
The nitrogenous bases in DNA pair up and form hydrogen bonds
Which of these statements is/are correct?
The pentose sugar unit in RNA is deoxyribose. while the pentose sugar unit in DNA is ribose.
RNA consists of single strand while DNA consists of double strands
RNA contains the bases adenine,guanine, thymine & cytosine
while DNA contains the bases uracil adenine, guanine & cytosine.
RNA does not act as a gene while DNA while DNA acts as genetic information.
