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Molecular Biology

The genetic material

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 posts, DNA presents some characteristics that make it the ideal molecule to carry out the […]

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Cell Biology

The basic unit of life

Robert Hooke

What is there in common between a snail and a frog? A fish and a tree or a turtle and your best friend? At first glance, you would answer that they are almost incomparable. They look so much different that you could claim their only similarity is that they are all living organisms on our […]