17.1 Components of Nucleic Acids

17.1 Components of Nucleic Acids

• The bases A, G, C, and T are in DNA.

• The atoms in the sugars are numbered with primes and ferentiate them from the atoms in the bases.
• The letter D is provided by the five-carbon pentose sugar found in the prefix.

• Deoxyribose is found in both ribose and DNA.

• The combination of adenine, a purine, and ribose forms the nucleoside adenosine.

• A glycosidic bond with a sugar creates a nucleoside and water.

• There are all the nucleotides in the genome shown.

• The sugars in the strands of DNA are different from the sugars in the strands of RNA.

• The letters A, G, C, U, and T are abbreviations of the bases.

• The deoxyribose, guanine, and aphosphate group is only found in DNA.

• The ribose, adenine, andphosphate group are only found in the RNA.