Self Assessment Answer # 5
for Lesson 19


by Dr Jamie Love © 2002 - 2010
Genetics Course


This is not an easy chore so don't feel bad of you did not include all the atoms.

Instead, compare you drawing to mine to be sure you have the linkages correct (phosphate on the 5' carbon, the base on the 1' carbon and the hydroxyl on the 3' carbon) and that you remembered to leave the 2' carbon without a hydroxyl (because that would have made this molecule deoxycytidylate).


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