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"Connects" monomers and "unites" them to become polymers (gives off water)
Divides polymers with help from water to return the polymers to their monomer states
There are multiple types of RNA, one of them being messenger RNA.
What is it?
RNA, or Ribonucleic Acid, is a carrier of genetic information, a catalyst of biochemical reactions, a transmitter during protein synthesis, and structural molecule for a cell's organelles.
Transfer RNA, or tRNA, is the RNA that gets the amino acids needed during the process of synthesizing proteins.
RNA vs DNA
Single Stranded ... Double Stranded
Ribose Sugar ... Deoxyribose Sugar
Uracil ... Thymine
There are 20 amino acids, and proteins that can be anywhere from only a few, to several thousands of amino acids
DNA, or Deoxyribonucleic acid, holds an organism's instructions for development and reproduction.
Deoxyribonucleic (DNA) and Ribonucleic (RNA) are the two types of nucleic acids. Nucleic acids store information to create new cells.
Nucleic Acids hold the information the cells need to function. This information is held in your genes. mRNA transfers the information from DNA to the RNA. Then, RNA uses this information to create various types of protein. mRNA is needed because the DNA is stored safely in the center of the cell to protect it from being damaged. IF the DNA is damaged, then mutations can occur.
mRNA
Whens cells reproduce the DNA has to be transferred to the next generation of cells. The DNA in the original cell replicates. When DNA is being replicated the double helix that holds the information unwinds and the two strands separate, DNA polymerase then uses each strand as a template to form a new cell. This is how the directions of how and when to produce proteins are passed from parents to their children. The child inherits how to produce proteins.
Heredity has to do with your genes. When a baby is born, all these genes are stored in chromosomes. Half of a child's chromosomes come from each of their parents.
BROKEN DOWN (Hydrolysis)
CREATED (Dehydration synthesis)
4 constituent bases
Sugar - sweet tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues
phosphate - a salt or ester of phosphoric acid
hydrogen bond - a weak bond between two molecules resulting from an electrostatic attraction between a proton in one molecule and an electronegative atom in the other. This bonds holds the double helix together.
adenine - paired with thymine in double stranded DNA
guanine - paired with cytosine in double stranded DNA
cytosine - paired with guanine
thymine - paired with adenine
(uracil - a constituent base of RNA. In DNA thymine takes its place)