Sentences with phrase «nucleic acid strands»

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The Zika virus helicase is a motor enzyme that converts energy from nucleoside triphosphate to unwind and separate double - stranded nucleic acids, so the single - stranded genetic material can then be copied.

This chemically enhanced X-ray technique revealed that DNA was composed of two complementary strands of nucleic acids linked by chemical bonds on a ladder - like chain.

Why, he mused, couldn't the unique ordering of the four nucleic acids in a short strand of DNA be mined in a similar way to identify the legions of species on earth?

RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid present in all modern life, but scientists have long hypothesized an «RNA World,» where the first proto - life was made of individual RNA strands that both contained genetic information and could copy itself.

Protein — nucleic acid contacts help explain DNA and RNA strand separation, the specificity of RNA synthesis, «abortive cycling» during transcription initiation, and RNA and DNA translocation during transcription elongation.

Functions typically attributed to folded proteins occur inside, such as binding and selectively concentrating single - stranded over double - stranded nucleic acids.

RNA (ribonucleic acid) a single stranded nucleic acid chain similar to DNA, which serves several important biological roles.

Our group seeks to investigate the use of chemically - modified nucleic acid aptamers, single stranded DNA or RNA sequences that specifically bind to a diverse variety of targets, in biosensing and catalysis.

Basically, PCR is a technique that takes a few strands of nucleic acid, generally DNA (sometimes RNA), and multiplies them until there are enough for the analysis.