Essays Tagged: "nucleic acids"
Mononucleus - Bacteria
cell cling to surfaces.A typical bacterium is about 2 micrometers long. Inside the cell, there are nucleic acids, enzymes, and other substances necessary to carry out the cells life process.Bacterium ... also a protective coat of protein or of protein combined with lipid or carbohydrate components. The nucleic acid is usually a single molecule, either singly or doubly stranded. Some viruses, however, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis; Outline
Outline on Iportant subjects in DNA and RNA -Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis7-1 DNACells 'know' how to how to produce ATP, how to build cilia ... of information is passed to another, it is called transformation.The Transforming FactorDNA is the nucleic acid that stores and transmits the genetic information fromone generation of an organism to ... f nucleotides. The first step in decoding that message is to copypart of the sequence into RNA (ribonucleic acid). RNA is the nucleic acid that actsas a messenger between DNA and the ribosomes and car ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
DNA
DNA are nucleic acids that are made up of long units of called nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of three p ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
DNA Microarray Technology. Basics of the DNA chips. Applications of DNA chips.
DNA MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGYOne of the most exciting nucleic acid analysis techniques is microarrays or DNA chips. They provide a radically different app ... o a solid surface approximately 1,2 x 1,2 cm. The microarray technique is based on hybridization of nucleic acids. Sequence complementarity provides the hybridization between two single-stranded nucle ... terns, however there are important differences between them. They differ in the size of the arrayed nucleic acids.In cDNA microarrays, long DNA molecules are immobilized by high-speed robots on a soli ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
The structure of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA.
A)Briefly describe the structure of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. (6)B)How do their differences in structure suit the different roles in wh ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Translation and Protein Synthesis- the role of various RNA and the process of synthesis
er the body links genotype to phenotype in the resulting organism. The individual types of RNA (ribonucleic acid) each play their own very important role in going from DNA coding to the final release ... chain. Translation itself is the process that makes the distinct change from the information in the nucleic acids to those in amino acids. In essence, the hereditary instructions for building proteins ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Explanations of the major elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, iron and zinc.
l niche that allows it to readily form large and complex molecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and ultimately DNA. These compounds are the building blocks of life. Although the huma ...
Subjects: Science Essays
The Nitrogen Cycle
Nitrogen is an essential component of amino acids and nucleic acids, which are the building blocks of all living things. Nitrogen makes up most of the atm ... rifying bacteria convert NO3- back to N2.From the NH4+ or NO3- absorbed plants make amino acids and nucleic acids. When animals eat the plants or other animals, they, in turn, obtain a form of nitroge ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The importance of the manganese in the human body
lycosyltransferases. And also, it is important in the structure and breakdown series of protein and nucleic acids, and for the RNA chain beginning.Moreover, an enough daily intake of manganese is 2 to ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
"Scientific Creationism"- It is an argument going for the theory of scientific creationism.
nisms that have evolved new genetic codes; the DNA remains the same.There is the following problem. Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and protein can be synthesized in the cell; however, this is an extremel ... ithin a cell, there is such a relationship that, while protein can be formed under the direction of nucleic acids, it so happens that nucleic acids cannot be formed unless protein (enzymes) exists. Ye ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
This describes the Nitrogen Cycle.
y living organisms to produce a number of complex organic molecules like amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids. The largest store of nitrogen is found in the atmosphere where it exists as a gas (ma ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Biosensor What is a Biosensor?
for use in the context of a sensor incorporating a biological element such as an enzyme, antibody, nucleic acid, microorganism or cell. For the purposes of this tutorial, a biosensor will be defined ... terial or a biomimic (e.g. tissue, microorganisms, organelles, cell receptors, enzymes, antibodies, nucleic acids etc.), intimately associated with or integrated within a physicochemical transducer or ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Biosensors combine
for use in the context of a sensor incorporating a biological element such as an enzyme, antibody, nucleic acid, microorganism or cell. For the purposes of this tutorial, a biosensor will be defined ... terial or a biomimic (e.g. tissue, microorganisms, organelles, cell receptors, enzymes, antibodies, nucleic acids etc.), intimately associated with or integrated within a physicochemical transducer or ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
important than nitrogen, which is required in large amounts as an essential component of proteins, nucleic acids and other cellular constituents. There is an abundant supply of nitrogen in the earth' ... nic molecule. Most of our nitrogen supply comes from proteins in the diet, with a small amount from nucleic acids. During digestion, proteins are broken down to amino acids, before being absorbed into ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
True Nature Of Prions
mined hypothesis that the infectious agent causing these diseases consists only of protein, with no nucleic acid genome (all previously known pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses, contain nucleic a ... terial, the scientists first subjected a prion sample to enormous amounts of ultraviolet radiation. Nucleic acids are relatively fragile molecules, and ultraviolet light easily breaks some of the bond ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Unknown Chemical Lab
nown chemical.Background: There are numerous organic chemical groups. The ones we are studying are, Nucleic Acids, Carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. Beginning with carbohydrates, carbon, hydrogen, ... e polysaccharide, monosaccharide, and disaccharide. The elements that are found in the molecules of Nucleic Acids are hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, nitrogen, and oxygen. Nucleic acdis have two froms ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Viruses in general: Infectious Mononucleosis
they infect a host or carrier cell. A virus particle, or virion, consists of the following things; Nucleic acid which is a set of genetic instructions, either DNA or RNA, either single-stranded or do ... contain a protein coat around the virus which is made of protein subunits they protect the enclosed nucleic acids when the virus is not contained within a host cells (wiki#1). Often times the protein ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Antiviral Drugs
viruses to replicate inside cells.Viral genomics, in which deciphers the sequence of "letters," or nucleic acids, in a virus's genetic "text." This sequence includes the letters in all the virus's ge ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
History and Discovery of DNA
DNA is the common name for Deoxyribonucleic acid. This is made up of nucleic acids containing deoxyribose (sugar), consisting of complex ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
Nucleic Acids - An Introduction
, and named this material "nuclein". A few years later, Miescher separated nuclein into protein and nucleic acid components. In the 1920's nucleic acids were found to be major components of chromosome ... ts of chromosomes, small gene-carrying bodies in the nuclei of complex cells. Elemental analysis of nucleic acids showed the presence of phosphorus, in addition to the usual C, H, N & O. Unlike pr ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry