#nucleotide

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The base of Worcestershire sauce is made by aging anchovies in vinegar-filled wooden tanks for 18 months. The fermentation releases inosinate, a nucleotide that gives it a savory taste. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: What's Inside Worcestershire Sauce? Fermented Surf for Your Turf | WIRED

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Simple Explanation of DNA Replication

Simple Explanation of DNA Replication

Introduction to DNA/RNA DNA or Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid is the motherboard of every living thing. It is a double helix structure comprised of a Phosphate and sugar (Deoxyribose) backbone that is connected by 5′-3′ phosphodiester bonds. Attached to the backbone is the main genetic material that codes for the synthesis of proteins and other structures. These important molecules are called…

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Going Dark

Three million years without sunlight has made a big impact on these Somalian cavefish, which live in complete darkness in underwater caves. Not only have they lost their eyes and skin pigmentation, but evolving in the dark has had an impact on the inner workings of their cells too. Cavefish obviously don’t suffer damage to their DNA from the ultraviolet rays in sunlight in their deep, dark homes, so they’ve lost the main light-dependent molecular repair ‘toolkit’ that other surface-dwelling animals rely on to fix these faults, known as photoreactivation DNA repair. However, they still retain a different mechanism known as nucleotide excision repair, which can be switched on if the cavefish are exposed to light. Comparing these processes in cavefish with the DNA repair systems in daylight-living zebrafish helps to illuminate the changes that have happened during their evolutionary journey over millions of years in such a strange environment.

Written by Kat Arney

Image by Hectonichus via Wikimedia

Research by Haiyu Zhao et al, Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Research published in PLOS Genetics, February 2021

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i spent an hour making this high-quality meme for a classic joke i hope you guys are happy

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To celebrate #DNAday, we're featuring some of our DNA comics, GIFs, and videos! DNA is a nucleic acid, and it's made up of nucleotides.

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For those, like me, that get confused with sizes