Question

What is the peculiarity of the ‘DNA’ structure?

Answer 1

Peculiarities of the DNA structure:

• DNA is a double helical structure having nucleotides.
• These nucleotides are made of deoxyribose sugar, phosphoric acid and nitrogenous bases such as adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine.
• The nucleotide sequence of the DNA molecule is called a gene.
• Genes are present on DNA.
• A type of gene is responsible for the synthesis of a particular protein.
• Changes in the gene can alter the characteristics of the organisms.