Chapter 24, Problem 15PS

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The structural formula for the tetranucleotide $\text{AUGC}$ has to be drawn.

Concept introduction: Carbohydrates are defined as the polyhydroxy aldehyde or ketone or any compound that can be hydrolyzed to them. Deoxyribose sugar and ribose sugar are monosaccharide sugar. they are also called pentose sugar as they contain five carbon atoms and forms a five-membered ring structure - $4$ carbon atoms and $1$ oxygen atom.

There are five nitrogenous bases adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine and uracil. A sugar unit attached to a base form a nucleoside unit. A nucleoside unit attached to a phosphate group together form a nucleotide unit. They are the main building block of nucleic acids DNA and RNA. Nucleotide units form the backbone of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA.

In DNA the bases present are adenine $\left(\text{A}\right)$, guanine $\left(\text{G}\right)$, cytosine $\left(\text{C}\right)$, and thymine $\left(\text{T}\right)$ In RNA the bases present are adenine $\left(\text{A}\right)$, guanine $\left(\text{G}\right)$, cytosine $\left(\text{C}\right)$, and uracil $\left(\text{U}\right)$.