DNA As Chemical Beacause Of Its Structure

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Firstly, DNA as chemical beacause of its structure and all the molecules that made it up. As I mentioned before, DNA is a nucleic acid and it is one of the main type of nucleic acids differing from the other in the type of sugar that forms its polymeric backbone. In this case of DNA, it is formed by 2’-deoxyribose sugar. Moreover, nucleotides are the subunits of DNA (a long chain of nucleotides) consist of a nitrogenous base (purine or pyrimidine), a sugar and a phosphate. In nucleotides, one of several different nitrogen-containing ring compounds (bases) is linked to a five-carbon sugar that carries a phosphate group. The backbone of the polynucleotide chain consists of an alternating series of pentose (sugar) and phosphate residues, via 5'-3'