NOUN
- (biochemistry) any of various macromolecules composed of nucleotide chains that are vital constituents of all living cells
How To Use nucleic acid In A Sentence
- Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
- He is seeking a causal source for the sequence specificity found in nucleic acids and proteins. Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?
- Unlike larger polypeptides and proteins, small nucleic acid duplexes and hairpins do not have a dense core to which this effect would apply.
- However, reactive oxygen species generated by UVA radiation, particularly singlet oxygen, can also damage nucleic acids.
- Ribonucleic acid (RNA) – the biomolecule which can do it all The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989
- A virus is a small packet of infectious nucleic acid material surrounded by a protein coat.
- Nucleic acids were extracted from grains of wheat using a modification of the CTAB protocol as described by SALLARES et al. 1995.
- These genes are now known to be molecules of a substance called deoxyribonucleic acid and each of these molecules has a little code of information on it that permits it to manufacture duplicates of itself to be handed on for example, to one's children, and also to manufacture special molecules such as the molecules of proteins, in which each atom is put in its right place in this product molecule. WN.com - Financial News
- A magnet then holds the beads/nucleic acids on the side of the tip while remaining material is ejected. The Scientist
- We will show, I hope, fairly conclusively that there is little or no interconversion between the two types of nucleic acid synthesis in the cell. On Handling the Data