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Answer the following: (any three)
What is the difference between a nucleoside and nucleotide?
What products would be formed when a nucleotide from DNA containing thymine is hydrolysed?
What are nucleic acids? Mention their two important functions.
The two strands in DNA are not identical but are complementary. Explain.
Nucleic acids are the polymers of nucleotides which in turn consist of a base, a pentose sugar and phosphate group. Nucleic acids are responsible for the transfer of characters from parents to offsprings. There are two types of Nucleic acids – DNA and RNA. DNA is the chemical basis of heredity and have the coded message for proteins to be synthesised in the cell. Answer the following :
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