DNA: How Do Nucleotides Form?

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How do Nucleotides form? In DNA, the pentose sugar is always deoxyribose whilst in RNA it is ribose. Adenine is one of the four bases in DNA. The pentose sugar reacts with the base during a condensation reaction caused by enzymes, creating a nucleoside and a water molecule. Next, a phosphoric acid joins the nucleoside to form a phosphoester bond between an OH group on the acid and an OH group on the carbon atom that was with the sugar’s OH (Carbon 5 on the skeletal model). This creates a nucleotide along with another water molecule. The only difference between all nucleotides are the bases nature in them. *On skeletal diagrams, the Carbon atoms aren’t labelled but are at every kink or end of a full line. How are Polynucleotides