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Nucleic acids answers

1. (a) Hydrogen bonding (b) Show two bonds between thymine and adenine and three bonds between cytosine and guanine in the correct positions. (c) A sugar (deoxyribose) and a phosphate group. (d) The phosphate of one nucleotide covalently bonds to the –OH of the deoxyribose on the next nucleotide by a condensation reaction to form a backbone of -sugar-phosphate-sugar- phosphate-. 2. (a) The triplet code is the...

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