Why do geneticists refer to the two sugar phosphate strands of DNA as "antiparallel"?

What will be an ideal response?


Nucleotides of each strand line up in the same direction, but the nucleotides of one strand line up in the opposite direction of the nucleotides of the other strand.

Biology & Microbiology

You might also like to view...

________ are proteins associated with clathrin-coated vesicles that are involved in the binding of vesicles to specific receptors.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Biology & Microbiology

What symptoms are shared by knockout mice with nonfunctional Dvl genes and humans with certain

psychiatric disorders?

What will be an ideal response?

Biology & Microbiology

If you want to know the probability that tossing two coins will result in a particular outcome (two heads, for example), you use the

A. punnett rule. B. product rule. C. sum rule. D. genetics rule. E. Bergman's rule.

Biology & Microbiology

Which of the following is/are obligate intracellular parasites?

A. Chlamydia and Rickettsia
B. E. coli and Pseudomonas
C. Mycoplasma
D. Treponema pallidum

Biology & Microbiology