There are many different things that make up the structure of DNA. They are: deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group, adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine, nucleotides, base pairs, and double helix. Now, I will not be able to get through them all, but here I go. I am sure you have heard of nucleotides, when we studied cells. The other terms, however, may be new to you.
One MAJOR term is the double helix. This is important because the double helix is what makes up/holds your DNA. Also, another few terms that are important are adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine. One thing you NEED to know is that adenine and thymine always pair up with each other, meanwhile cytosine and guanine pair up. They never pair up with anything else. The amount that the DNA contains of it is also ALWAYS equal to the other. This information was found out by Erwin Chargaff. At first, people didn't think that this info was important, but later they realized this must be known in order to find out the structure of DNA. That's all that I have time for today, so google the rest if you'd like.
One MAJOR term is the double helix. This is important because the double helix is what makes up/holds your DNA. Also, another few terms that are important are adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine. One thing you NEED to know is that adenine and thymine always pair up with each other, meanwhile cytosine and guanine pair up. They never pair up with anything else. The amount that the DNA contains of it is also ALWAYS equal to the other. This information was found out by Erwin Chargaff. At first, people didn't think that this info was important, but later they realized this must be known in order to find out the structure of DNA. That's all that I have time for today, so google the rest if you'd like.
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