Sugar-Phosphate Groups and Phosphodiester Bonds

Practice Questions

Biochemistry › Sugar-Phosphate Groups and Phosphodiester Bonds

Questions
4
1

Which of the following is not a reason that the anhydride linkage of pyrophosphate stores so much energy?

2

What type of bond holds the phosphate group to the sugar group in DNA's backbone?

3

What type of bonds are found between the DNA sugar hydroxyl groups? What are their corresponding carbon numbers?

4

In DNA, the 5-carbon sugar is attached to the nitrogenous base by a __________.

Return to subject