BIOLOGY U3 SAC 1

• What is the structure of nucleic acids?


  Large biomolecules, contain CHONP (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus), Polymers (polynucleotides)
• What is the function of nucleic acids?


  store and transport genetic information
• What are the two types of nucleic acids?


  deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA)
• What is DNA?


  deoxyribonucleic acid, contains coded information for RNA production
• What is RNA?


  ribonucleic acid, acts as a transportable copy of the code, structural copy of ribosomes
• What are monomers?


  building blocks of polymers
• What are nucleotides?

  monomers of nucleic acids