Both are polymers.

This means they are made up from condensation of

NUCLEIC ACIDS many repeating .

1’

General structure of monomer for And differences!

nucleic acid

DNA Differences RNA

( ) Monomer ( )

The 5C sugar is called . The 5C sugar is called .

This is because it the atom This is because it the atom
at its carbon number . at its carbon number .

A Bases A
Thymine U

Guanine Guanine

DNA nucleotide or RNA nucleotide?

Condensation of many DNA Nucleotides will results in the formation of . Meanwhile the
condensation of many RNA Nucleotides will results in the formation of .
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Based on Watson and Crick Model
1. strands twisted around each other forming a structure.
2. The 2 strands are anti- to each other. One strand runs from 5’ to 3’
and its complementary strand runs from 5’ to 3’ in the opposite direction.
3. The backbone of the strand is made up of and and are
located at the of the helix.
4. The 2 strands are held together by bond formed between their
nitrogenous bases.
a. Adenine will always pair with via hydrogen bonds. Complementary
base pairing
b. Guanine will always pair with via hydrogen bonds.

(Purines) (Pyrimidines)

5. Function of DNA is to store information of an organism

In a stretch of DNA, there are 20% Thymine. Calculate the amount of the rest of the bases.

RNA (Ribonucleic Acid)

Although RNA is single stranded, but they can form internal base pairing. (A with & C with ).
However, still antiparallel.

There are 3 types of RNA.

RNA type Function

Acting as a messenger. It is a transcript of DNA and carry the
information to the ribosome to be translated into protein.
tRNA Bring to ribosome during synthesis of
proteins.
Associates with other proteins to form .

Differences between DNA and RNA

DNA Criteria RNA

Nucleotides

Bases

Number of strand

Size

Types