Nucleic Acids
Nucleic Acids: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Structure of DNA, Ribonucleic Acid, Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, Types of RNA and, Gene Expression
Important Questions on Nucleic Acids
What do you mean by nucleic acid, and who discovered it first?

The nitrogenous bases in RNA are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, which replace uracil in DNA.

_____ (Ribonucleic acid/Deoxyribonucleic acid) is involved in translation and transcription,

A _____ is regarded as the basic building block of nucleic acid.

Nucleic acids are the polymers of Nucleotides.

What is RNA? Mention its types and give the functions of each.

In nucleic acids, nucleotides are joined by

Ribosomal RNA is synthesised in

On which part of tRNA, amino acid gets linked


Which form of RNA is most heterogeneous

How many types of ribonucleic acids are known

Which of the following RNA carries information from DNA in protein synthesis?

Which of the following types of the RNA molecule can be described as soluble, relatively small, and having a folded compact shape?

Identify the correct statement about RNA

Nucleotides and nucleosides mainly differ from each other in

Which one of the following also acts as a catalyst in a bacterial cell?
