DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

This article was originally published with the title “ The Nucleotide Sequence of a Nucleic Acid ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 2 (February 1966), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...

Levene proposed that nucleic acids were composed of a series of nucleotides, and that each nucleotide was in turn composed of just one of four nitrogen-containing bases, a sugar molecule ...

"The importance of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) within living cells is undisputed ... its expression of the information contained in its nucleotide sequence. Thus, these articles explore both ...

The salvage pathway recycles preformed nucleobases and nucleosides from the breakdown of nucleic acids and nucleotides. This pathway is more energy-efficient than the de novo pathway and helps ...