UNIT 3 - Reading Genetic Instructions

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<p>nucleotides</p>

nucleotides

  1. 5 carbon sugar (on 2’ carbon)

  2. bases

  3. one or more phosphate groups


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<p>purines</p>

purines

  • double-ring structures

    • adenine (left) and guanine (right)


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<p>pyrimidines</p>

pyrimidines

  • single-ring structures

    • thymine (left) and cytosine (right)


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nucleoside

  • combination of sugar and base


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phosphodiester bond

covalent bond that connects one nucleotide to the next

  • C - O - P - O - C linkage