One degree is 1/360 of the way around a circle and therefore 1/360 of the moon's orbit around the earth. 1/360 of one month is on the order of a couple hours.] This page was last updated June 28, 2015. The Earth.
DNA is negatively charged because of the phosphate group that is in each nucleotide. DNA also has a negative charge because of the phosphate icons in its chemical backbone.â¦.
Nucleotides have three parts to them: 1  a phosphate group, which is negatively charged. 2  a pentose sugar, which has 5 carbon atoms in it. In RNA the sugar is ribose. 3  a nitrogenous base. There are five different bases (you don't need to know their structures).