Indicate Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 46

Multiple Choice

Indicate which of the following statements is FALSE.

• A) Covalent bonds connect nucleotides in a strand; noncovalent interactions hold strands into a double-stranded structure.
• B) Uracil is similar to thymine except that uracil lacks a methyl group on the carbon at position 5 on the carbon-nitrogen ring.
• C) Frederick Griffith demonstrated that a transforming chemical from dead bacteria could change the genetic information of living bacteria.
• D) Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty showed that DNA is the genetic information of cells and that RNA is the genetic information of viruses.
• E) The pyrimidine bases in nucleic acids are cytosine, thymine, and uracil.

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