NUCLEIC ACIDS (DNA & RNA)

Cards (10)

  • Friedrich Miescher
    in 1869 Nucleic Acids got discovered by
  • Nucleic Acids
    Isolated what he called nuclein from the nuclei of pus cells. Nuclein was shown to have acidic properties; hence it became called?
  • Rosalind Franklin
    She discovered Photo 51 and revealed the double helix of DNA 
  • Deoxyribonucleic Acid
    A nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. Made of long chains of nucleotides.
  • RNA
    a single-stranded molecule representing a complimentary copy of a portion of only one strand of DNA that codes for one or more proteins
  • Erwin Chargaff's Rule
    It's his rule wherein the relative amounts of adenine and thymine are the same in DNA. The relative amounts of cytosine and guanine are the same
  • Polynucleotide
    DNA is made up of two strands of what?
  • Ribonucleic Acid
    different sugar (ribose) where T is replaced by U and only consists of single strand
  • TAC-CAT-TAT
    DNA: ATG-GTA-ATA
  • CGG-CUU-CUU
    DNA: GCC-GAA-GAA