Deoxyribonucleic acid

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Unraveling the double helix

Posted on by Konstantina Louka

We learned in a previous post that in 1952, after a lot of experiments, DNA was accepted by the scientific community as the genetic material of the cells. However, something was still missing, and that was its structure. For many… Continue Reading →

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The genetic material

Posted on by Konstantina Louka

DNA or Deoxyribonucleic acid is the genetic material of all the cells and most viruses, with the exception of some viruses that use another type of nucleic acid, called RNA or Ribonucleic acid. As we will see in the following… Continue Reading →