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By the way, adenosine triphosphate That's right! Not only is ATP the
has a similar structure but with common currency of energy, it's
three phosphates attached.
also a building block of RNA.

Adenosine
Adenine

O PPP

Hey, it’s our Wow! ATP is even
old friend ATP, the more important
common currency than I thought!

of energy!

look! If we swap out the base
in adenosine monophosphate
with the other four kinds of
bases, we get the following
nucleotides:

• If the base is guanine (G), we get guanosine monophosphate and
deoxyguanosine monophosphate, for RNA and DNA respectively.

• If it’s cytosine (C), we get cytidine monophosphate and deoxycytidine
monophosphate.

• If it’s thymine (T), we get deoxythymidine monophosphate.*

• If it’s uracil (U), we get uridine monophosphate and deoxyuridine
monophosphate.**

* Since the deoxy form of thymine is the most prevalent, the deoxy prefix is often
left out.

** Although uracil is not a base that’s normally in DNA, the deoxy type does exists.

I see! There are two types of pentoses
and five types of bases. If the base changes,

the nucleotide also changes, right? It’s
the same with udon and soba!

curry Don't forget
the green
slurp onions and

seven-spice
powder!

Depending on what we
combine it with, it can turn
into soba and egg, tempura

soba, and so on...