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Study guide Chapter 3

How are nucleic acids similar to and different from proteins in terms of structure and
function?
What do the individual monomers (nucleotides) of nucleic acids look like?
What functional groups attach to the 1, 2, 3, and 5 carbons of the ribose sugar in a
nucleotide?
How is RNA different from DNA in structure, function, and stability?
How are individual nucleotides linked together in a nucleic acid? Why is it important to
use nucleotide triphosphates as the monomers?
What holds the two strands of a double-stranded DNA molecule together?
What functions are served by nucleotides and nucleic acids in the cell?
What is the Central Dogma of molecular biology?
What is the template (starting material to be copied or read) and what is the product for
replication, transcription, and translation? What are the building blocks used to make the
product (the monomers linked together to make the final polymer)?
How are transcription and translation different in prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
What would be the RNA transcript of this DNA sequence:
5 GGATGCCTAAGTTTTAGGCCATGTAC 3

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