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KEY CONCEPT DNA structure is the same in all organisms.

Learn about the fundamental aspects of DNA structure, including nucleotides, base pairing rules, and key discoveries by scientists like Watson, Crick, Franklin, and Chargaff. Understand how DNA is the same across all organisms. Solve problems related to DNA composition and diversity.

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KEY CONCEPT DNA structure is the same in all organisms.

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  1. KEY CONCEPT DNA structure is the same in all organisms.

  2. phosphate group nitrogen-containing base deoxyribose (sugar) DNA is composed of four types of nucleotides. • DNA is made up of a long chain of nucleotides. • Each nucleotide has three parts. • a phosphate group • a deoxyribose sugar • a nitrogen-containing base

  3. The nitrogen containing bases are the only difference in the four nucleotides.

  4. Watson and Crick determined the three-dimensional structure of DNA by building models. • They realized that DNA is a double helix that is made up of a sugar-phosphate backbone on the outside with bases on the inside. • Video

  5. Watson and Crick’s discovery built on the work of Rosalind Franklin and Erwin Chargaff. • Franklin’s x-ray images suggested that DNA was a double helix of even width. • Chargaff’s rules stated that A=T and C=G.

  6. G C A T Nucleotides always pair in the same way. • The base-pairing rules show how nucleotides always pair up in DNA. • A pairs with T • C pairs with G • Because a pyrimidine (single ring) pairs with a purine (double ring), the helix has a uniform width.

  7. covalent bond hydrogen bond • The backbone is connected by covalent bonds. • The bases are connected by hydrogen bonds.

  8. Problem Solving • Compare the amounts of A, T, G, and C in each kind of DNA. Why do you think the relative amounts are so similar in the liver and thymus cells? • How do the relative amounts of each base in herring sperm compare the those in yeast? Why? • What fact can you state about the overall composition of DNA regardless of its source (species?)?

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