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Starting with the dinucleotide, draw a trinucleotide by adding another nucleotide to the 3’ carbon of the bottom nucleotide residue. Highlight the phosphodiester bonding patterns. You may use a circle to represent the organic base structures, as I did in the dinucleotide.
A trinucleotide structure is shown below
The organic bases has been marked with dashed circles.
A phosphodiester bonds are one where a phosphate group makes two bonds through its oxygen atoms like an ester group. The phosphodiester groups are shown by dashed squares in the figure.