Unit 3 biology introduction and nucleic acids

Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus

What are the elements used in Nucleic acids?

Nucleotides

What are the monomers used in Nucleic acids?

DNA and RNA

What are the functions in nucleic acids?

DNA

encodes genetic information used to assemble proteins, it is double-stranded, deoxyribose sugar, and its bases are A(Adenine)-T(Thymine), G(Guanine)-C(Cytosine)

RNA

a variety of roles in gene expression, single stranded , ribose sugar, bases are A(Adenine)-U(Uracil), G(Guanine)-C(Cytosine)

-5 carbon group, phosphate group, and nitrogenous base

What are each nucleotide 3 components that they consist of?

ATP

Stands for Adenosine triphosphate, type of nucleotide that is the energy currency of cellular metabolism in all organisms, cells must obtain energy from food molecules to synthesize ATP

Biological Molecules

What does carbon provide the framework for?

Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, sulfur

What are organic compounds are primarily of these common elements?

Functional groups

act as units during chemical reactions and give specific chemical properties to molecules that possess them Ex:Hydroxyl, Carbonxyl, Carboxyl, and Amino

Isomers

groups of molecules identical in atomic composition but differing in structural arrangement. Their difference in their structural arrangement may affect their biological Function. Examples include (glucose and fructose which are C6H12O6)

Hydroxyl

Found in Carbs, Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Lipids.

Carboxyl

Found in proteins and lipids

Amino

Found in proteins and nucleic acids

Carbonyl

Found in Carbs and Nucleic Acids