Biology Questions

HDL stands for high-density lipoproteins.

HDL is called the "good" cholesterol because it carries cholesterol from other parts of your body back to your liver. Your liver then removes the cholesterol from your body.

Hence, when it comes to cholesterol it is better to have more HDL.

The building blocks of the nucleic acids are "Nucleotides".

Each nucleotide are composed of three parts. They are ::

1.Pentose sugar

2.Nitrogenous bases

3.Phosphoric acid.

Tetrad is a homologous chromosome pair in the given options. A homologous chromosome pair is a pair of chromosomes one from father and one from mother that has same gene sequence after the process of meiosis.

REM sleep i.e, Rapid Eye Movement sleep is also known as paradoxical sleep because the measures of the brain activity closely resemble waking consciousness, but the person is incapable of moving as the brain is in fully active mode that time.

In DNA, the chemicals are Adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. They always pair as basepairs like Adenine with Thymine and Guanine with Cytosine.