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Study of structure, function, and behaviour of cells - ANSWER: Cell Biology
All living cells store hereditary info in form of double stranded molecules of... -
ANSWER: DNA
Made up of nucleotides - ANSWER: DNA
Consists of sugar (deoxyribose), phosphate molecule with nitrogen containing side
group or base - ANSWER: Nucleotides
...are of four types: Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine - ANSWER: Bases
...binds only to thymine or uracil - ANSWER: Adenine
...binds only to cytosine - ANSWER: Guanine
Each sugar linked to another via...creating polymer chain - ANSWER: Phosphate
group
Bonds between bases on diff strands - ANSWER: Hydrogen bonds
Bonds between phosphate backbone - ANSWER: Covalent bonds
Each strand serves as template to synthesise new DNA strand complimentary to
itself - ANSWER: DNA replication
Templated polymerisation, DNA sequence used as template for production of RNA -
ANSWER: Transcription
RNA molecules used to synthesise proteins - ANSWER: Translation
Consists of ribose, phosphate, Adenine, guanine, cytosine and uracil - ANSWER: RNA
Transcripts function as intermediates in transfer of genetic info, they serve as... -
ANSWER: mRNA
Single-stranded, flexible backbone which can fold back on itself - ANSWER: RNA
Unbranched polymer chains made from amino acids AKA polypeptide - ANSWER:
Proteins