| A | B |
|---|
| Nucleic Acids | Store Genetic Information |
| Adenine's complement | Thymine |
| Guanine's Complement | Cytosine |
| The two main types of nucleic acids | DNA and RNA |
| Both types of nucleic acids are composed of | nucleotides |
| nucleotides have three key parts | sugar molecule,phosphate group, nitrogen base. |
| Deoxyribose | found in DNA |
| RNA | ribonucleic acid |
| adenine, Uracil , guanine, and cytosine | Found in RNA |
| A, G, C, and T | adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine abreviated |
| complementary | Matching nitrogen bases |
| DNA characteristic | "double helix" |
| what holds the complementary base pairs together | hydrogen bonds |
| the breaking of hydrogen bonds between complementary base pairs is done by | helicase enzymes |
| "Y-shaped" area (similar to a fork in a road) | Replication fork |
| The second step of replication is | the repairing of the separated DNA strand |
| they repair the separated DNA strand | DNA polymerase enzymes |
| Found in RNA | ribose |
| Has two strands of nucleotides | DNA |
| Has on strand of nucleotides | RNA |
