tectonic plates in the earth's crust has moved almost every piece of land from its original spot. On average, tectonic plates moved land masses about 2.3 CM a year.
Out of the following give choices;
a. All DNA strands
contained only the heavy nitrogen isotope.
b. Half of the DNA strands contained only the light nitrogen
isotope.
c. All DNA strands contained both heavy and light nitrogen
isotopes.
d. All DNA strands contained only the lighter nitrogen
isotope.
The answer is b. Meselson–Stahl experiment demonstrated the semi-conservative model of DNA replication.
When DNA is replicated, one strand of the new double
helix strand is the parent's strand while the other is the newly synthesized
one. This made the semiconservative model stand out over the other two, dispersive
and conservative models.
Bacteria have either DNA or RNA as genetic material. This genetic material must be able to replicate efficiently and accurately in order to make sure that offspring inherit the same genotype as the parent organism. This is possible because of genetic information.
Answer: Option B) phosphate; hydroxyl; 3'
We identify nucleic acid strand orientation on the basis of important chemical functional groups. These are the phosphate group attached to the 5' carbon atom of the sugar portion of a nucleotide and the hydroxyl group attached to the 3'
carbon atom
Explanation:
For both RNA and DNA, chemical groups such as phosphate (PO3-) attaches to the 5' carbon of the pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA, ribose in RNA).
While hydroxyl group (OH) attaches to the 3' carbon atom of the pentose sugar.
Thus, a nucleic acid structure structure reveals a several repeating units of nucleotides where nitrogenous base links to a pentose sugar, who in turns is linked to phosphate group
