AP Biology· difficulty 2/5
Adjacent nucleotides in a single DNA strand are joined by
Glycosidic bonds
Hydrogen bonds
Peptide bonds
Phosphodiester bonds
Explanation
The 3'-OH of one sugar links to the 5'-phosphate of the next via a phosphodiester bond — the sugar-phosphate backbone.
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