Sentences with phrase «form ribose»

16 Glycolaldehyde can react with a three - carbon sugar to form ribose, the basis for both RNA and DNA, so the glycolaldehyde found in deep space may be a chemical precursor to life on Earth.

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For instance, all living things exclusively use the right - handed form of the sugar ribose (the backbone of DNA), and many chiral pharmaceutical chemicals are only effective in one handedness; in the other, they can be toxic.

Scientists have long known that ribose molecules, a key constituent of RNA, form easily in Miller's «prebiotic soup,» but they normally break down too quickly to link together to form this simple genetic material.

In 2016, Cornelia Meinert of the University Nice Sophia Antipolis in France and colleagues showed that irradiated ice forms a cornucopia of molecules essential to life, including ribose, the backbone of RNA, which may have been a precursor to DNA (SN: 4/30/16, p. 18).

Many of Rick Pierson's comments are correct, in particular his identification of what scientists call the water problem: the fact that the reaction of a phosphate with ribose and nucleobases to form a nucleotide is energetically uphill in water.

Ribose sugar is required for the backbone structure of RNA; a less complex form, deoxyribose sugar, is required for the backbone structure of DNA.

Ribose is the structural backbone of ATP, the primary form of energy used for all cellular processes.

The powdered form of ribose has a slightly sweet, pleasant maple taste, so when you brew up a batch go light on the stevia to start — you can always add more if you need more sweetness.

I do not take any form of d - ribose, can't remember where I read about it, but I deemed it pointless somewhere along the line.

Ribose Size from MuscleLink is a pure form of Ribose - it has nothing else mixed in.