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    double helix refers to the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA. The double helical structure of a nucleic acid...
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    Nucleic acid structure refers to the structure of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. Chemically speaking, DNA and RNA are very similar. Nucleic acid structure...
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    Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" was the first article published to describe the discovery of the double helix structure...
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    a double helix. Melting is the process by which the interactions between the strands of the double helix are broken, separating the two nucleic acid strands...
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    with its double helix, there are two possible directions for the notated sequence; of these two, the sense strand is used. Because nucleic acids are normally...
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    and in 1953 Watson and Crick proposed the double-helix structure of DNA. Experimental studies of nucleic acids constitute a major part of modern biological...
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  • Nucleic acid thermodynamics is the study of how temperature affects the nucleic acid structure of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). The melting temperature...
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    DNA (redirect from Deoxiribose nucleic acid)
    directionality (sometimes called polarity) to each DNA strand. In a nucleic acid double helix, the direction of the nucleotides in one strand is opposite to...
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    {b}{a^{2}+b^{2}}}.} An example of a double helix in molecular biology is the nucleic acid double helix. An example of a conic helix is the Corkscrew roller coaster...
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    Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is an artificially synthesized polymer similar to DNA or RNA. Synthetic peptide nucleic acid oligomers have been used in recent...
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    design and manufacture of artificial nucleic acid structures for technological uses. In this field, nucleic acids are used as non-biological engineering...
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  • The nucleic acid notation currently in use was first formalized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in 1970. This universally...
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    of the chain (PNA can even form a triple helix). Nucleic acid analogues are also called xeno nucleic acids and represent one of the main pillars of xenobiology...
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    nucleotide base, or nucleobase, is rotated outside the nucleic acid double helix. This occurs when a nucleic acid-processing enzyme needs access to the base to...
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    Nucleic acid tertiary structure is the three-dimensional shape of a nucleic acid polymer. RNA and DNA molecules are capable of diverse functions ranging...
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  • because nucleic acid double helices are stiff and roughly linear, they do not fold back on themselves to give "long-range" correlations. Nucleic acids also...
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    RNA (redirect from RiboNucleic Acid)
    proteins (messenger RNA). RNA and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are nucleic acids. The nucleic acids constitute one of the four major macromolecules essential...
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    Nucleotide base (redirect from Nucleic base)
    with all of these monomers constituting the basic building blocks of nucleic acids. The ability of nucleobases to form base pairs and to stack one upon...
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    disruption of base pairs and the separation of the double stranded helix into two single strands. Nucleic acid strands are capable of re-annealling when "normal"...
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    Amazon HQ2 (redirect from Amazon Helix)
    developed by JBG Smith. The development includes "The Helix", a 354-foot glass nucleic acid double helix art structure with landscaped terrain that would be...
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    Halby L, Arimondo PB (September 2008). "The triple helix: 50 years later, the outcome". Nucleic Acids Research. 36 (16): 5123–5138. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn493...
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  • Duplex (moth), a genus of moths in the family Erebidae Nucleic acid double helix, a double-stranded molecule of DNA or RNA Duplex (telecommunications)...
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  • In a chain-like biological molecule, such as a protein or nucleic acid, a structural motif is a common three-dimensional structure that appears in a variety...
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    Hoogsteen base pair (category Nucleic acids)
    A Hoogsteen base pair is a variation of base-pairing in nucleic acids such as the A•T pair. In this manner, two nucleobases, one on each strand, can be...
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  • Crick, F. H. (April 1953). "Molecular structure of nucleic acids; a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid" (PDF). Nature. 171 (4356): 737–738. Bibcode:1953Natur...
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    biochemical means, molecular models such as the Watson-Crick nucleic acid double helix model were successfully employed to solve the 'puzzle' of DNA...
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    Base pair (redirect from Double-stranded)
    of double-stranded nucleic acids consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds. They form the building blocks of the DNA double helix...
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  • 2004), English-born molecular biologist, co-discoverer of the nucleic acid double helix structure in 1953, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    Nucleic acid design is the process of generating a set of nucleic acid base sequences that will associate into a desired conformation. Nucleic acid design...
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    amphioxus Techniques: genetic screen – linkage map – genetic map DNA Nucleic acid double helix Nucleobase: adenine (A) – cytosine (C) – guanine (G) – thymine...
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