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A Brief of Biochemistry: Nucleic Acids
Abstract
DNA and RNA are nucleic acids that encode genetic information and are processed by cells to produce RNA and proteins, which are required for living creatures to perform. Such content may be duplicated and handed on to another generation thanks to a very well arrangement of a DNA double helix structure. This section discusses the structure and composition of nucleic acids. Several of the researchers were honored with Excellence Award for their achievements in study, and the article gives background information and focuses on the following of initial research that contributed to the knowledge of such an important molecule and how it functions. The DNA structure, how everything is organized in chromosome, or how it's copied before cellular division. If the genetic concept has evolved because of how DNA is duplicated into RNA, transcription, and translated into protein, translation, since conception.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijbb.v8i1.775
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