nucleic acids

• are nucleic acids organic or inorganic compounds?

  organic compounds
• what are nucleic acids made up of

  -sugar

  -phosphate

  -nitrogenous base
• monomers of nucleic acids


  nucleotides
• what are nucleotides made up of?


  -pentose sugar

  -phosphate

  -nitrogenous base
• types of pentose sugar

  ribose or deoxyribose
• diagram on nucleotide

  
• types of nucleotides


  DNA and RNA
• biological importance of nucleic acids


  control functioning of the cell, also contains hereditary information
• RNA


  -found in cytoplasm and on ribosomes

  -forms in nucleus

  -plays a role in building the required proteins from amino acids
• DNA


  -found in nucleus, chloroplast and mitochondria

  -stores information for which amino acids must be produced and sequenced to form proteins