Question

Are these the correct formations?
amino acid>polypeptide>proteins
nucleotide>nucleic acid>DNA/RNA

Answer 1

What does this formation even mean?? I thought polymers are made up of monomers??

Answer 2

I need help explaining this image

Answer 3

I thought protein was a polymer?!? why is polypeptide under polymer??

Answer 4

isnt protein consist of amino acids (the monomer)?

Answer 5

so a protein this is made up of amino acids. so yes amino acids are the subunits of proteins.

#1. the sequence of amino acids determines everything about the protein including its higher level structure.

Answer 6

so the image is basically a formation of biomolecules?

Answer 7

so a protein is made up of amino acids. BUT a protein contains many polypeptide chains.

Answer 8

polypeptide chains are chains of amino acids?

Answer 9

poly means many, so there are many peptides, peptides are the bonds formed between amino acids.

Answer 10

could you explain to me the DNA and nucleic acid part

Answer 11

Nucleotide>DNA/RNA>Nucleic Acid?

Answer 12

So here's DNA

Answer 13

so let's look at a nucleotide

Answer 14

does nucleotides form dna and rna?

Answer 15

and another name for dna and rna is nucleic acid?

Answer 16

there are three parts to a nucleotide. a sugar, a base, adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, or uracil. and a phosphate group.

Answer 17

Dna means DE-oxy ribonucleic acid: the see where that H is? in RNA there is a hydroxyl group at that carbon.



let's look at RNA

you can see it's structure is similar to DNA both are made up of nucleotides BUT there is an extra OH at the adjacent carbon. hence RIBO nucleic acid.

RNA is single stranded and that OH group actually makes RNA less stable than DNA.