nucleic acids and an RNA world

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what is dna

it stores genetic information

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what rna used for

used to build proteins

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what is a nucleic acid

a polymer of nucleotide monomers

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what happens between nucleotides

phosphodiester linkage

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what do phosphodiester linkages form

a sugar-phosphate backbone

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what did franklin and wilkins use to measure the distance between atoms in dna

x-ray crystallography

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what causes dna to form into a helix

a hydrophobic interaction

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what is a chromatin

dna and protein complex in chromosomes

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what does rna secondary structure come from

complementary base pairing: A with U; G with C

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what can rna molecules have

tertiary structure