DNA

• What does DNA stand for?

  deoxyribonucleic acid
• What is DNA a polymer of?

  DNA nucleotides
• What are the 3 components of DNA nucleotide?

  pentose sugar (called deoxyribose)

  phosphate group

  nitrogen containing organic base
• What are the 4 dna organic bases?

  Adenine complimentary to Thymine

  
  

  Guanine complimentary to Cytosine
• What bond holds DNA nucleotides together?

  phosphodiester bonds
• Describe a Dna molecule

  A DNA molecule is a double helix with 2 polynucleotide chains held together by hydrogen bonds between specific complimentary base pairs
• How are DNA nucleotides joined together?

  by condensation reactions