nucleotide bases

A nucleotide consists of a sugar molecule (either ribose in RNA or deoxyribose in DNA) attached to a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing base. The bases used in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). In RNA, the base uracil (U) takes the place of thymine.

1. What are the 4 nucleotide bases?
2. What are the 5 nucleotide bases?
3. What are the 4 types of bases?
4. What are the 5 bases of nucleic acids?
5. How do nucleotide bases pair up?
6. Is DNA a nucleotide?
7. Where are nucleotides found?
8. What are nucleotides give examples?
9. What 2 groups do nucleotides fall into?
10. How do you make nucleotides?
11. What nucleotides go together?

What are the 4 nucleotide bases?

Adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine are the four nucleotides found in DNA.

What are the 5 nucleotide bases?

Five nucleobases—adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T), and uracil (U)—are called primary or canonical. They function as the fundamental units of the genetic code, with the bases A, G, C, and T being found in DNA while A, G, C, and U are found in RNA.

What are the 4 types of bases?

Four different types of nitrogenous bases are found in DNA: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G).

What are the 5 bases of nucleic acids?

Each nucleic acid contains four of five possible nitrogen-containing bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), thymine (T), and uracil (U).

How do nucleotide bases pair up?

​Base Pair

The two strands are held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases, with adenine forming a base pair with thymine, and cytosine forming a base pair with guanine.

Is DNA a nucleotide?

The DNA molecule is a polymer of nucleotides. Each nucleotide is composed of a nitrogenous base, a five-carbon sugar (deoxyribose), and a phosphate group. There are four nitrogenous bases in DNA, two purines (adenine and guanine) and two pyrimidines (cytosine and thymine). A DNA molecule is composed of two strands.

Where are nucleotides found?

RNA and DNA are polymers made of long chains of nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of a sugar molecule (either ribose in RNA or deoxyribose in DNA) attached to a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing base. The bases used in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T).

What are nucleotides give examples?

Examples of nucleotides with only one phosphate group:

• adenosine monophosphate (AMP)
• guanosine monophosphate (GMP)
• cytidine monophosphate (CMP)
• uridine monophosphate (UMP)
• cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)
• cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)
• cyclic cytidine monophosphate (cCMP)
• cyclic uridine monophosphate (cUMP)

What 2 groups do nucleotides fall into?

Each nucleotide monomer consists of a pentose (five-carbon) sugar, to which is attached two other groups; a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base.

How do you make nucleotides?

The biosynthesis of nucleotides is accomplished through the creation of a glycosidic bond between a ribose phosphate unit (pRpp) and a purine or pyrimidine base, as shown in the figure here. The bond occurs between C1 of the ribose and N9 of a purine or N1 of a pyrimidine.

What nucleotides go together?

The rules of base pairing (or nucleotide pairing) are: A with T: the purine adenine (A) always pairs with the pyrimidine thymine (T) C with G: the pyrimidine cytosine (C) always pairs with the purine guanine (G)