Nucleotides Overview

Encyclopedia: Nucleotides

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Nucleotides are organic compounds that consist of three joined structures: a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and a phosphate group. The most common nucleotides can be divided into two groups based on the structure of the nitrogenous base. The joined sugar is either ribose or deoxyribose. Nucleotides are the structural units of RNA and DNA. They also serve as important cofactors in cellular signaling and metabolism. These cofactors include CoA, flavin...


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If given a sequence of nucleotides, how can you tell if it is regulated?
I understand different operons and how they may turn off transcription, etc, but I don't...

You cannot just look at a nucleotide sequence and say whether it regulates something. You need to know where this sequence is located relatively to the gene of interest....

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