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DNA Structure

Nucleic acids are made up of nucleotides which contain a sugar, phosphate, and one of four nitrogen bases - adenine, guanine, cytosine, or thymine. The nucleotides are held together by weak hydrogen bonds between the nitrogen bases, with adenine bonding with thymine and cytosine bonding with guanine. In RNA, uracil replaces thymine and ribose replaces deoxyribose.

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DNA Structure

Nucleic acids are made up of nucleotides which contain a sugar, phosphate, and one of four nitrogen bases - adenine, guanine, cytosine, or thymine. The nucleotides are held together by weak hydrogen bonds between the nitrogen bases, with adenine bonding with thymine and cytosine bonding with guanine. In RNA, uracil replaces thymine and ribose replaces deoxyribose.

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Nucleic acid

Nucleotides

Sugar, Nitrogen Base, and Phosphate

Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine

They have the same sugar and phosphate but they have different nitrogen bases.

Weak hydrogen bonds hold the nitrogen base pairs toghether.

The phosphate, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine would have been the same. Instead of deoxyribose we would have just ribose and
instead of Thymine we would have Uracil.

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