Thanks to this new interdisciplinary pursuit of astrochemistry, the 140 - foot went on to discover formic acid (you know it as insect venom), methanol, acetaldehyde (the chemical responsible for hangovers), and cyanoacetylene (a possible precursor to the DNA
acid cytosine).
Not exact matches
The five nucleotides — adenine, thymine,
cytosine, guanine and uracil — arranged into DNA and / or RNA The twenty amino
acids — that form all proteins, including enzymes and the other 100,000 or so proteins in a complex organism's body.
The study results revolve around the relationship between TET2 and
cytosine, one of the four nucleic
acid «letters» that comprise the DNA code in genes.
Their process involved simultaneously pumping inexpensive fluorine gas and a solution of
cytosine in formic
acid through a steel tube.
The genome comprises 4,411,529 base pairs, contains around 4,000 genes, and has a very high guanine +
cytosine content that is reflected in the biased amino -
acid content of the proteins.