Match the following terms and definitions.
1. a five-carbon sugar
mutation
a giant molecule consisting of the sugar deoxyribose,
phosphates, and nitrogen bases
nitrogen base
3. a change in the genetic information code
deoxyribose
nucleotide
one of the three major types of chemicals making up a
nucleotide in DNA
the combination of phosphate, sugar, and nitrogen bases in
DNA or RNA
RNA
6. a nucleic acid similar to DNA that uses ribose for the sugar
DNA