DNA Structure and Replication and Protein Synthesis

STORE INFORMATION The DNA that makes up genes controls developement and characteristics of different kinds of organisms. In order to grow, your body must be able to read your DNA to do what it needs to do in order to make you grow and develope the way you are supposed to.

COPYING INFORMATION You need to be able to make more DNA, which you can do by copying it. Cells can divide into more cells because my body can make copies of my DNA.

PASSING ALONG INFORMATION You must be able to pass on genetic information to a child.

Chemist discovered that cytozine=guanine and adenine=thymine

Involved in x-ray chrystalogrphy what the physical structure of DNA looks like

Physicists did none of their own research used information form Wilkins and Franklin without them knowing in order to determine the shape of a DNA strand

Nucleotides, which is a monomer of the macromolecule nucleic acid.

Phosphate group sugar nitrogen base

Adenineguaninethyminecytosine

2 ringed structure adenine and guanine

1 ring structure thymine and cytosine

Adenine always binds with thyminecytosine always binds with guanine

Double helix

Hydrogen Bonds

Covalent Bonds