7. 10: Nucleic Acids- Parts, Structure, and Function Nucleic acids are large polymers formed by linking nucleotides together and are found in every cell Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the nucleic acid that stores genetic information If all the DNA in a typical mammalian cell were stretched out end to end, it would extend more than 2 m
11. 1: Structure and Function - Nucleic Acids - Biology LibreTexts Nucleotides contain three primary structural components These are a nitrogenous base, a pentose sugar, and at least one phosphate Molecules that contain only a sugar and a nitrogenous base (no phosphate) are called nucleosides
Chemistry of nucleic acid bases, nucleotides polynucleotides Nucleic acids are made by connecting nucleotides via phosphodiester bonds The repeating unit is the nucleotide The nucleotide, in turn, is built from three components: a sugar, a base, and a phosphate group (Figure 14 2) There are two types of the nucleic acid sugars and four different bases
Lesson Explainer: Nucleic Acids | Nagwa Nucleic acids are polymers This means that they are large molecules that are made up of several repeating molecular subunits, or monomers The monomers of nucleic acids are called nucleotides A nucleotide is made of three parts: a phosphate group, a pentose sugar, and a nitrogen-containing base
Introduction to Nucleic Acids: Structural Properties of Nucleic Acid . . . Just as the amino acids are building blocks of proteins, the nucleotides are the monomeric unit of nucleic acids proteins Like are called characteristic number of chain We polynucleotides The common nucleotides come in 5 different flavors Adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine in DNA, with uracil substituting for thymine in RNA
Nucleotides Nucleic Acids - Boston University Nucleic acids can be separated by gel electrophoresis Polymers can be placed in a well in a semisolid gel and an electric field is applied across the gel Negatively charged Nucleic acids move towards positive end For polymers of the same shape, smaller polymers travel faster than larger polymers
CHAPTER 2 STRUCTURES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS nucleic acids olymeric acids isolated from the nucleus of cells DNA and RNA can be represented as simple strings of letters, where each letter corresponds to a particular nucleotide, t e monomeric component of the nucleic acid polymers Although this conveys almost all the information content of the nucleic acids, it does not tell yo