In certain parts of the world, grasshoppers are eaten as food. They are often dried, jellied, roasted and dipped in honey or ground into a meal. Grasshoppers are controlled in nature by predators such as birds, frogs, and snakes. Humans use insecticides and poison baits to control them when they become crop pests.
See Fig. 1. The nucleotides within each strand are held together by the phosphodiester bonds between the 5' carbon of one nucleotide and the 3 ' carbon of the adjacent nucleotdie. These strong covalent bonds form the the glue that holds the sugar/phosphate backbone together and thus act to keep each strand together.The two strands of DNA are held together by weak hydrogen bonds (remember, something must hold them together!) between the nitrogenous bases.The interesting (and very important) aspect of the Watson-Crick model is that these hydrogen bonds are base specific.ames Watson and Francis Crick proposed a structure for the DNA molecule that suggested the basic mechanism of DNA replication. The model proposes that DNA is composed of two strands of DNA running anti-parallel (remember the 5' and 3' ends!!) to each other.
Each strand of the double helix is held together by covalent bonds between deoxyribose sugar and phosphate groups (on the 3' and 5' carbons) (making up the backbone). The bases-purines or pyrimidines - (adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine) are also bonded onto the deoxyribose sugar (on 1' carbon) covalently.eport Abuse. Hydrogen bonds hold the two helices together to form a double helix. I also remember somethign called base stacking, which if i recall was hydrogen bonding of the same strand, which promoted the helical nature and enforced rigidity of the structure.