Genetics

What are nucleic acids?

• Have three parts

• The macromolecule that holds our genetic material (DNA)

• Make up the Nucleic acids

• Twisted double ladder

What carries out all cell activity?

• RNA

• Proteins

• Sugar

• DNA

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What make up nucleic acids

• RNA

• DNA

• Nucleotides

• adenine

What is this?

• Hydrogen bonds

• Cytosine

• A nucleotide

• Nucleic acid

what is the backbone of DNA

• Covalent

• Sugar phosphate

• Nitrogen

• hydrogen

What has a weak base

• DNA

• hydrogen bonds

• Nitrogen base

• Covalent bonds

Which has a single strand of nucleotides?

• DNA

• RNA

What are chromosomes?

• tightly coiled strands of DNA

• Nucleotides

• a section of DNA

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What is a gene ?

• Certain points on nucleotides

• A section of DNA that has instructions to code for a protein

• Single strands of nucleotides

Where does DNA replication take place?

• Meosis

• Mitosis

• Interphase

• S phase of interphase