what are the basic building blocks of deoxyribonucleic acid?

Question

DNA

Answer 1

DNA is made up of strands of polynucleotides. these polynucleotides are made of nuclotides which consist of a heterocyclic base (Adenine/Guanine/Cytosine/Thymine), a sugar, and one or more phosphate groups.

Answer 2

"DNA is comprised of four building blocks called bases. The building blocks are: Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine, Adenine. These are commonly referred to as C, G, T, A. It is the order (sequence) of these building blocks that determines each person's genetic characteristics.

Cytosine It is a pyrimidine derivative, with a heterocyclic aromatic ring and two substituents attached (an amine group at position 4 and a keto group at position 2). The nucleoside of cytosine is cytidine. In Watson-Crick base pairing, it forms three hydrogen bonds with guanine.Cytosine was first discovered in 1894 when it was isolated from calf thymus tissues. A structure was proposed in 1903, and was synthesized (and thus confirmed) in the laboratory in the same year.

Guanine with the formula C5H5N5O, guanine is a derivative of purine, consisting of a fused pyrimidine-imidazole ring system with conjugated double bonds. Being unsaturated, the bicyclic molecule is planar. The guanine nucleoside is called guanosine.
he first isolation of guanine was reported in 1844 from the excreta of sea birds, known as guano, which was used as a source of fertilizer. About fifty years Fischer determined the structure and also showed that uric acid can be converted to guanine. The first complete synthesis was done by Traube and remains among the best large-scale preparations.

Thymine also known as 5-methyluracil, is a pyrimidine nucleobase. As the name implies, thymine may be derived by methylation of uracil at the 5th carbon. Thymine is found in the nucleic acid DNA. In RNA thymine is replaced with uracil in most cases. In DNA, thymine(T) binds to adenine (A) via two hydrogen bonds to assist in stabilizing the nucleic acid structures.

Thymine combined with deoxyribose creates the nucleoside deoxythymidine, which is synonymous with the term thymidine. Thymidine can be phosphorylated with one, two or three phosphoric acid groups, creating respectively TMP, TDP or TTP (thymidine mono- di- or triphosphate).

Adenine is one of the two purine nucleobases used in forming nucleotides of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. In DNA, adenine binds to thymine via two hydrogen bonds to assist in stabilizing the nucleic acid structures. In RNA, adenine binds to uracil, which is used in the cytoplasm for protein synthesis.

It forms several tautomers, compounds that can be rapidly interconverted and are often considered equivalent. Guanine, a related compounds (also a purine derivative), forms tautomers in the same way, and has more detailed information too.

Adenine forms adenosine, a nucleoside, when attached to ribose, and deoxyadenosine when attached to deoxyribose; it forms adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a nucleotide, when three phosphate groups are added to adenosine. Adenosine triphosphate is used in cellular metabolism as one of the basic methods of transferring chemical energy between chemical reactions.

In older literature, adenine was sometimes called Vitamin B4. However it is no longer considered a true vitamin nor part of Vitamin B.Some think that, at the origin of life on Earth, the first adenine was formed by the polymerizing of five hydrogen cyanide (HCN) molecules. However, this has been criticized by some chemists."

Answer 3

3 basic blocs

1) sugar deoxxyribose

2) a phosphate group

3) A base. This is the most important component. They are four bases support of heredity Adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine and from their sequence depends the formation of proteins

Answer 4

D N A

There are four organic bases involved in the formation of DNA molecules:

adenine and guanine (both purines containing two rings in their structures)
thymine and cytosine (both pyrimidines containing only one ring in their structures)

Answer 5

2 deoxyribose sugar strands, a phosphate, and either a purine or a pyridimine base.

Answer 6

AMINO ACIDS make up proteins, not nucleic acids!

Answer 7

amino acids