DNA Model Questions(your name here)

Answer the following questions and post your DNA pictures and for this blog.

1.      What is DNA?

  

2.      What are the building blocks of DNA called? Name the three main components of these building blocks.

 

  

3.      Where in a eukaryotic cell is DNA found?

 

4.      List and describe as many functions of DNA in living things that you can think of (at least three!)

5.  List each color that is represented for the nitrogenous bases located within the center of the molecule.

 6. Examine the nucleotides. Draw and take a picture of a  nucleotide and label the three parts. Use your textbook or Google images if you need help.

 7. What type of bonds form between the nitrogen base pairs? (Look it up if nobody in the group knows.)

 

 8. What type of bonds form between the sugar-phosphate groups

Math Application:

1.      If a DNA molecule were composed of 10% guanine, what percents of the molecule would be made up of cytosine, adenine, and thymine? Show your work.