A TWO child average will not solve overpopulation. With a two child average per woman (or per man), total population would go up by about two billion more â to nine billion! â before it even levels off! And it would not decline below 8 billion for another 200 years!
Nucleic acids. Nucleotides can link together by the formation of phosphate ester bonds. The hydroxyl group of a phosphate on one nucleotide undergoes a condensation reaction with the hydroxyl group on the carbohydrate ring of another nucleotide. The process may continue, building up nucleic acid molecules. These are polymers called polynucleotides. Formation of a polynucleotide. Nucleic acids are the 'building blocks' of DNA and RNA. The structure of DNA. DNA is formed from two polynucleotide chains.
These strands of DNA are made of nucleic bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine), phosphates, and sugars. These components form DNA into the double helix shape we associate with DNA (the twisted ladder shape.) The nucleic bases are held together in the middle of the two strands by weak hydrogen bonds. This is what we know contemporarily as a strand of DNA. Strands upon strands of DNA are then packaged together (with protein formations generally called histones) to form what we know as the chromosome.