Concepts of Genetics (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134604718
Author: William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings, Charlotte A. Spencer, Michael A. Palladino, Darrell Killian
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 30ESP
Consider the drawing of a dinucleotide below.
- (a) Is it DNA or RNA?
- (b) Is the arrow closest to the 5′ or the 3′ end?
- (c) Suppose that the molecule was cleaved with the enzyme spleen phosphodiesterase, which breaks the covalent bond connecting the phosphate to C-5′. After cleavage, to which nucleoside is the phosphate now attached (A or T)?
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