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Laboratory 8B
The Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
10/19/2010

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Term

What is the difference in RNA and DNA?

 

Definition

Sugar is different Ribose and Deoxyribose

 

Structure

 

Bases are different

-RNA is single stranded

-DNA is double stranded

Term
What is the importance of Purines?
Definition

Nitrogenous base that make up the building blocks of RNA and DNA

 

Include adenine and guanine

Term
What is the importance of pyrimidines?
Definition

Is the other type of nitrogenous base.

 

Includes the nucleobases thymine, cytosine, and uracil.

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