DNA/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Chromosome [r]: A compact body of ribonucleic acid wrapped around proteins that is the unit in which genetic material is distributed during cell division. ^[e]
• Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. ^[e]
• Genome [r]: The set of all genes of an organism. ^[e]
• Nucleic acid [r]: A class of macromolecules important in conveying genetic information. ^[e]
• Polymer [r]: A compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller, similar molecules (monomers), or by the condensation of many smaller, similar molecules eliminating water, alcohol, etc. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Nucleotide [r]: A repeating unit in nucleic acid polymers consisting of a purine or pyrimidine base, a pentose sugar, and a phosphate group. ^[e]
• Nucleoside [r]: A purine or pyrimidine base attached to a ribose (used in RNA) or deoxyribose (used in DNA). ^[e]
• Deoxyribose [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bases [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Adenine [r]: A base incorporated into DNA and RNA and part of an energy carrier, as ATP, in metabolism. ^[e]
  • Cytosine [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Guanine [r]: Natural biomolecule used as one of the five bases in RNA and DNA. ^[e]
  • Thymine [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Gene [r]: The functional unit of heredity. ^[e]
• Allele [r]: A specific sequence of a gene, and one of a pair in a diploid cell (one per chromosome). ^[e]
• Codon [r]: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Amino acid [r]: Biochemical with an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen atom, and a side chain bonded to a central carbon. ^[e]
• Capsid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cell [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. ^[e]
• Cell nucleus [r]: Membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells, containing most of the cell's genetic material, organized as multiple long linear DNA molecules in complex with a large variety of proteins, such as histones, to form chromosomes. ^[e]
• Chloroplast [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Epigenetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Eukaryote [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Genomic imprinting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hydrogen bond [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mitochondrion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nucleoid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phenotype [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Plasmid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Protein [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ribosome [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RNA [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Translation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vector [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Virus [r]: Add brief definition or description

Biographies relevant to DNA

• Alec Jeffreys
• Alfred Hershey
• Alfred Sturtevant
• Allan Maxam
• Annie Chang
• Arthur Kornberg
• Barbara McClintock
• Colin MacLeod
• Craig Venter
• David Botstein
• Ed Southern
• Edward Tatum
• Erich von Tschermak
• Erwin Chargaff
• Francis Crick
• Franklin Stahl
• Frederick Griffith
• Frederick Sanger
• Friedrich Miescher
• George Beadle
• Gregor Mendel
• Hamilton Smith
• Har Gobind Khorana
• Harriet Creighton
• Herbert Boyer
• Hermann J. Muller
• Howard Temin
• Hugo de Vries
• James D. Watson
• James Gusella
• Joseph Sambrook
• Karl Correns
• Kary Mullis
• Kent Wilcox
• Leroy Hood
• Lloyd Smith
• Maclyn McCarty
• Mark Skolnick
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg
• Martha Chase
• Matthew Meselson
• Maurice Wilkins
• Oswald Theodore Avery
• Patrick Brown
• Paul Berg
• Phoebus Levene
• Ray White
• Raymond Gosling
• Robert W. Holley
• Ronald Davis
• Rosalind Franklin
• Stanley Cohen
• Thomas Hunt Morgan
• Walter Gilbert
• William Astbury