This Day in History: 06/19/1953 - Rosenbergs executed. In This Day in History video clip: On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair.
The bond linking a phosphate group to a sugar of a another molecule is called a phosphodiester bond.
For example, in adenosine monophosphate (AMP), the phosphate is connected to the sugar via an oxygen-carbon bond (the oxygen comes from the phosphate group, the carbon from the sugar) and the sugar is in turn connected to the nitrogenous base (adenine) via a carbon-nitrogen bond, the carbon being on the sugar (different from the one above) and the nitrogen being on the base (adenine)