QUIZ
Launch ↗ Nucleic Acid Builder
DNA and RNA are built from nucleotides, each made of a phosphate group, a five carbon sugar and a nitrogenous base, and the order of those bases carries genetic information. Small differences in sugar and base chemistry explain why DNA stores information stably while RNA works as a short lived copy. Here you assemble nucleotides, pair bases and follow that information through to transcription.
Launch InteractiveTopics covered
- Nucleotide structure
- Complementary base pairing
- DNA versus RNA
- Deoxyribose and ribose
- Chromosome organization
- The central dogma