The phosphate are found in the ribose-phosphate backbone of DNA. Phosphate links the sugars, called deoxyribose and from which DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid gets its name, to make up the backbone of each strand of DNA. Each sugar is linked to the next by a phosphate group. RNA, made up of ribose rather than deoxyribose, or both sugars, is similarly negatively charged.
Interquartile is a term used in statistics. In particular, the interquartile range is one measure of the spread of a distribution. A distribution is a record of the values of some variable. For example, if we found the incomes of 100 people, that would be the distribution of income in our sample.
The interquartile range (IQR) is the range of the middle 50% of the scores in a distribution. It is computed as follows: IQR = 75th percentile - 25th percentile. For Quiz 1, the 75th percentile is 8 and the 25th percentile is 6.he interquartile range is therefore 2. For Quiz 2, which has greater spread, the 75th percentile is 9, the 25th percentile is 5, and the interquartile range is 4. Recall that in the discussion of box plots, the 75th percentile was called the upper hinge and the 25th percentile was called the lower hinge.