{"id":312,"date":"2009-12-21T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-12-21T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:45:44","slug":"nucleic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Nucleic acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/04\/NA-comparedto-DNA_thymineAndUracilCorrected.png\/350px-NA-comparedto-DNA_thymineAndUracilCorrected.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #962727\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nucleic acid can be made up of a double helix structure or a single stranded structure. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #962727\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">DNA and RNA both are Nucleic acids<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #962727\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">DNA consists of a base made up of: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cytosine<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thymine<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Adenine<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, and <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Guanine.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">RNA consists of a base made up of: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cytosine<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Adenine<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, and <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Guanine.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span>Uracil<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #962727\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nucleic acids<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> are built up by single <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">nucleotides<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> linked together. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nucleotides are made up of a five carbon sugar, a nitrogen base<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, and a phosphoric acid.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nucleotides are held together by phosphate ester bonds, which occur with the presence of oxygen and carbon atoms bonded together.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>Comparison of DNA and RNA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Deoxyribonucleic acid<\/em> (DNA) is known to have a double helix structure, a deoxyribose sugar, and consists Thymine but not Uracil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Ribonucleic acid<\/em> (RNA) consists of a ribose sugar and Uracil instead of Thymine.<\/li>\n<li>RNA is single stranded, and it translates the genetic material of DNA, into protein structures, carrying out the instructions of DNA.<\/li>\n<li>The three subcategories of RNA are Ribosomal\u00a0<em>RNA<\/em> (rRNA),<em>messanger RNA<\/em> (mRNA), and\u00a0<em>transfer RNA<\/em> (RNA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nucleic acid can be made up of a double helix structure or a single stranded structure. DNA and RNA both are Nucleic acids DNA consists of a base made up of: Cytosine, Thymine, Adenine, and Guanine. RNA consists of a base made up of: Cytosine, Adenine, and Guanine. Uracil Nucleic acids are built up by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nucleic acid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Nucleic acid - science4all","description":"Nucleic acid can be made up of a double helix structure or a single stranded structure. 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