Nucleic Acids Questions

• The glycosidic bonds in DNA and RNA
• Thymidine
• In gel electrophoresis, what fragments will move most quickly through a gel?
• A purine with an amine (NH2) group on the 6th carbon is
• Because DNA is a highly charged polyanion, its stability to heat denaturation
• The unfavourable free energy associated with not satisfying a hydrogen bond after formation of the double helix is approximately
• Nucleotide bases and aromatic amino acids absorb light respectively at
• A nucleotide consists of
• Which of the following is a purine?
• A five carbon sugar lacking a hydrogen at the number 2 carbon is found in
• Which of the following is found on RNA but not DNA?
• Which pyrimidine base contains an amino group at carbon 4?
• Nucleic acids can be analyzed experimentally by their
• The most stabilizing force for nucleic acids is
• The sugar in RNA is __________ , the sugar in DNA is __________
• Nucleoside is a pyrimidine or purine base