BIO 181 North Carolina State University -BIO 181 Vocab 5 well answered

BIO 181 Vocab 5deoxyribose - correct answer The sugar found in deoxyribonucleotides. ribose - correct answer The sugar found in ribonucleotides DNA sequence - correct answer order of nitrogenous bases in a strand of DNA or RNA nucleic acid - correct answer A biological molecule composed of nucleotide monomers; examples include DNA and RNA. nucleotide - correct answer a molecule consisting of a five-carbon sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base nitrogenous base - correct answer A component of nucleotides; including adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil. antiparallel - correct answer The opposite orientation of nucleic acid strands, with one strand running in the 5' -> 3' directions and the other in the 3' -> 5' direction. purine - correct answer A double-ringed nitrogenous bases (guanine, adenine) found in nucleotides. pyrimidine - correct answer A class of single-ringed nitrogenous bases (cytosine, uracil, thymine) found in nucleotides. double helix - correct answer structure of the DNA molecule made of two strands of DNA phosphodiester bond - correct answer forms between the phosphate group in one nucleotide and the -OH group in the next nucleotide