DNA replication

• DNA

  Deoxyribonucleic acid
• Uracil is not a DNA base
• DNA nucleotide does not consist of a protein
• Complementary bases

  Form hydrogen bonds
• DNA is replicated in the S phase
• Eukaryotic cells have more DNA than prokaryotic cells
• DNA is located in the nucleus in Eukaryotes
• DNA replication

  DNA polymerase links individual nucleotides into DNA molecules
• Role of DNA


  Storing information and copying information
• Helicase


  The enzyme that unzips DNA during replication
• DNA molecules consist of one old strand and one new strand