NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

BIOCHEMISTRY

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Nitrogenous bases present in the DNA can be grouped into two categories:
A
adenine and guanine
B
cytosine and uracil
C
purines and pyrimidines
D
cytosine and thymine
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Nitrogenous bases present in the DNA can be grouped into two categories: purines (Adenine (A) and Guanine (G)), and pyrimidine (Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T)). These nitrogenous bases are attached to C1’ of deoxyribose through a glycosidic bond. Deoxyribose attached to a nitrogenous base is called a nucleoside.

Detailed explanation-2: -Purines and Pyrimidines are nitrogenous bases that make up the two different kinds of nucleotide bases in DNA and RNA. The two-carbon nitrogen ring bases (adenine and guanine) are purines, while the one-carbon nitrogen ring bases (thymine and cytosine) are pyrimidines.

Detailed explanation-3: -Under normal circumstances, the nitrogen-containing bases adenine (A) and thymine (T) pair together, and cytosine (C) and guanine (G) pair together. The binding of these base pairs forms the structure of DNA .

Detailed explanation-4: -The purines in DNA are adenine and guanine, the same as in RNA. The pyrimidines in DNA are cytosine and thymine; in RNA, they are cytosine and uracil.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are two types of nitrogenous bases; purines and pyrimidines. Purines are namely adenine and guanine and three pyrimidines are cytosine, thymine and uracil. The purines adenine and guanine and the pyrimidine cytosine are common to both DNA and RNA. DNA has the pyrimidine thymine; RNA has the pyrimidine uracil.

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