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Briefly describe the structure of a polynucleotide chain. |
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Answer» Well if we talk about Nucleotides then it's RNA & DNA which are made up of Organic molecules. And when these molecules combines as a whole then it's called as Polynucleotide chain. => Or in simple words then Polynucleotide chain is the Chain of nucleotide. => A nucleotide has three components - N-base , Pentose sugar and Phosphate. => In N-base there are mainly 2 parts found - Purines and Pyramidines. And Purines must bind with Purines so as to maintain the DNA helical structure. => These nitrogenous bases are linked to each other with H-bonding also the nitrogen base is linked to the pentose sugar with N-glycosidic bond. => When a phosphate group is linked to 5'-OH of a nucleotide via phosphodiester linkage , a corresponding nucleotide is formed. => More and more nucleotide can be joined in order to form a polynucleotide chain.A polymer thus formed has at one end a free phosphate moiety at 5'-end of the ribose sugar. => Similarly at the other end of the polymer the ribose has free 3'-OH Group which is refrerred as 3'-end of the polynucleotide chain. |
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