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i need help asap!! “Describe the structure of DNA. Be sure to include information about the directionality of the strands and how the molecules are bonded together.”

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DNA is consist of two strands that are coiled together to form a double helix structure in which both the strands are anti-parallel. The direction of one strand is from 5' to 3' and the other has 3' to 5'.

DNA is made up of nucleotide, phosphate group and deoxyribose sugar. The two anti-parallel strands on DNA are composed of nucleotide and bonded with hydrogen bond. There are four nitrogenous bases present in each nucleotide e adenine (A), guanine (G), Thymine (T) and cytosine (C). Where A and T are bonded with double hydrogen bond and G and C are bonded with triple hydrogen bond present complementary to each other in both the strands.

sugar -phophate group forms the backbone of the DNA.

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