The Hippocratic Oath is an oath usually taken by a doctor to swear their commitment to their profession. Dr Margolin had never broken the promise, and he had always been honourable to the utmost, avoiding every kind of bias towards his patients. The protagonist, Dr Margolin, being a doctor himself, had his set of principles to follow.
Study the given below single strand of deoxyribonucleic acid depicted in the form of a “stick” diagram with 5′ – 3′ end directionality, sugars as vertical lines and bases as single letter abbreviations and answer the questions that follow.
Name the covalent bonds depicted as (a) and (b) in the form of slanting lines in the diagram.
How many purines are present in the given “stick” diagram?
Draw the chemical structure of the given polynucleotide chain of DNA.