Nucleic+Acids

Nucleic Acids

Nucleic acid is made up of three different parts, there is nitrogen base, phosphate and ribose sugar. there is also ACGT this stands for adenosine, cytosine, guanine, thymine and uracil, this is the 5 different parts the nuclei acids are made up of. there are the two main nucleic acids, there is DNA and RNA. There are many different Nucleic acids like RNA, mRNA and RNA, but the main once are DNA and RNA.

Nucleic Acids are found in all living things, they transporting genetic information from one generation to the next generation. RNA and the rest of the nucleic acids help by working together to help cells replicate and build proteins. RNA is a very important part to the building of proteins in other living things. Nucleic acids have two main parts to them the back is made up of alternated sugar and phosphate molecules that connect together to make a chain. ATP, this is what you burn when you are burn sugar or fats. most of the information and genetic info is stored in the DNA the main Nucleic Acid next to RNA that is a lot smaller then DNA, but stores and helps with the replication of cells. RNA gets its name from the sugar of the back bone of the molecule. But RNA does not have thymine, instead it contains uracil taking the place of thymine.





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