nucleic acid

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    • 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
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