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318 BIOLOGICAL MATERtALS<br />

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Flgure 12.7. The four levels of structure of a protein: (a) primary structure of a stretched-out<br />

polypeptide, (b) secondary struclures ol an x helix (Iefl) and a /i’ sheet (right), (c) lertiary structure<br />

01 a polypeptide held tcgelher by disullide bnds (-S-S-). and quaternary struclure Iormed by<br />

two polypeplides. [From S. S. Mader, Bology, McGraw-Hill, Bos<strong>to</strong>n, 2001 p. 47.1<br />

attachment points where the bases bond <strong>to</strong> the desoxyribose sugar are indicated by<br />

vertical arrows in Fig. 12.9, and the bases pair off with each other in the double-<br />

stranded DNA in accordance with the horizontal arrows in the figure; that is,<br />

cy<strong>to</strong>sine (C) pairs with guanine (G), and thyminc (T) pairs with adenine (A), in the<br />

manner shown in Fig. 12.10, We see from this figure that the acid-phosphate group<br />

bond

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