Nucleic Acids

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Important Questions on Nucleic Acids

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 1

Give the plausible explanation for the following:

The two strands in DNA are not identical but are complementary.

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 2

What is nucleoside?

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 3

What is the difference between a nucleoside and a nucleotide?

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 4

What are nucleic acids? Mention their two important functions.

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 5

Name the chemical components which constitute nucleotides. Write any two functions of nucleotides in a cell.

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 6

Give any three difference between DNA and RNA

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 7

DNA and RNA contain four bases each. Which of the following bases is not present in RNA? 

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 8

A unit composed of a sugar and base linked by the β-glycosidic bond is known as a --------------------.

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 9

A Zwitter ion is

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Chemistry Crash Course (Based on Revised Syllabus-2023)>Biomolecules>Nucleic Acids> Q 10

A sequence of how many nucleotides in messenger RNA makes a codon for an amino acid?