nucleic acid

• what is pentose made up of

  5 carbon atoms
• what is nitrogenous base made of

  carbon and nitrogen
• what is phosphate made of

  phosphate
• what is polynucleotides made up of

  nucleotides formed together via condensation reaction to form a polynucleotide

  • phosphate group of one nucleotide forms a covalent bond with the sugar of another - forms a phosphodiester bond
• what can phosphodieste bonds be broken with

  hydrolysis - releasing the nucleotide monomers
• what is dna made of

  a pentose sugar

  • ATCG
  • a phosphate group
• what does ATCG pair with

  adenine pairs wth thymine via 2 hydrogen bonds

  cytosine pairs with guanine via 3 hydrogen bonds