Why do you think it is important that the sugar – phosphate backbone of dna is held together by covalent bonds, and the cross –

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Why do you think it is important that the sugar – phosphate backbone of dna is held together by covalent bonds, and the cross –

bridges between the two strands are held together by hydrogen bonds?

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Yanka [14] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-01T12:26:21+03:00

Yanka [14]3 years ago

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As covalent bonds are strong it makes the sugar phosphate backbone a stable molecule which will HV less chances for a mutation while the huydrogen bonds exist for the ease of DNA replication as they are strong in a way but weak for the replication to take place easily.