DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Nucleic acids are named for where they're found—inside the nuclei of cells—and for the ...

The double-stranded DNA that results from this pattern of bonding looks much like a ladder with sugar-phosphate side supports and base-pair rungs. Note that because the two polynucleotides that ...

DNA is negatively charged, due to the phosphate groups in its phosphate-sugar backbone ... which contains eight histone proteins and about 146 base pairs of DNA (Van Holde, 1988; Wolffe, 1999).

Combinations of these atoms form the sugar-phosphate backbone of the DNA -- the sides of the ladder, in other words. Other combinations of the atoms form the four bases: thymine (T), adenine (A ...

Each nucleotide consists of alternating sugar and phosphate sections with one of the four different bases attached to the sugar.

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

DNA and RNA use the same five-carbon sugar, ribose, in their structure. The deoxy- means that on one side of the base pair, there's a place where another base pair can attach itself by way of a ...

Genes control everything from hair color to blood sugar by telling cells ... DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). A DNA sequence is a specific lineup of chemical base pairs along its strand.

Hyderabad: In a shocking revelation, a recent study by the renowned environmental journal Toxic Links has found alarming ...