Biology

Petersen

18 May, 11:30

1. Nucleic acids are polymers of.

2. The monomers of nucleic acids consist of a phosphate group, a five-carbon sugar, and a.

3. provides directions for its own replication. It also directs cell activities by providing instructions for building proteins.

4. A gene provides the directions to build a molecule of; the genetic instructions it carries are then translated into the amino acid sequence of a protein.

5. A polynucleotide has a repeating backbone.

6. The structure of DNA is a double helix, held together by the complementary base-pairing of cytosine with guanine, and adenine with thymine.

7. RNA usually consists of a single strand.