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Genetic material of living organisms is either
DNA or RNA.
DNA – Deoxyribonucleic acid
RNA – Ribonucleic acid
Genes are lengths of DNA that code for
particular proteins.

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Both DNA and RNA are polynucleotides.
They are made up of smaller molecules called
nucleotides.
DNA is made of two polynucleotide strands:

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

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RNA is made of a single polynucleotide strand:

Nucleotide

Nucleotide

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A nucleotide is made of 3
components:
 A Pentose sugar
 This is a 5 carbon
sugar
 The sugar in DNA is
deoxyribose.
 The sugar in RNA is
ribose.

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A Phosphate group
Phosphate groups are
important because
they link the sugar on
one nucleotide onto
the phosphate of the
next nucleotide to
make a
polynucleotide.

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A Nitogenous base

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In DNA the four bases are:
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Thymine
Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine

In RNA the four bases are:
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Uracil
Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine

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Pyramidines

Purines

Thymine - T
Cytosine - C
Uracil - U

Adenine - A
Guanine - G

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Nucleotides are
connected to each other
via the phosphate on
one nucleotide and the
sugar on the next
nucleotide
A Polynucleotide

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The Nitrogenous
Bases pair up with
other bases. For
example the bases of
one strand of DNA
base pair with the
bases on the opposite
strand of the DNA.

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Adenine always base pairs with Thymine (or
Uracil if RNA)
Cytosine always base pairs with Guanine.

This is beacuse there is exactly enough room
for one purine and one pyramide base between
the two polynucleotide strands of DNA.

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Purines

Pyramidines

Adenine
Adenine

Thymine
Uracil

Guanine

Cytosine

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Property 1 - it must contain, in a stable form,
information encoding the organism’s
structure, function, development and
reproduction
Property 2 - it must replicate accurately so
progeny cells have the same genetic makeup
Property 3 - it must be capable of some
variation (mutation) to permit evolution

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Speed of DNA replication:
3,000 nucleotides/min in human
30,000 nucleotides/min in E.coli
Accuracy of DNA replication:
Very precise (1 error/1,000,000,000 nt)

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3H-labelled

after one further replication
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chromosomes

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Origins initiate
replication at
different
times.

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