I will explain how Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA, stores all of our genetic information and the processes of transcription and translation which expressed genetic information.

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Biochemical techniques

DNA to Protein

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On this essay I will explain how Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA, stores all of our genetic information and the processes of transcription and translation which expressed genetic information.

DNA is an extremely long slim macromolecule made up of many different deoxyribonucleotide subunits. Each DNA molecule is made up of two very long polymers linked by hydrogen atom and coiled in the shape of a double helix. Each of this two polymers contain many structures called nucleotide. Which broken down in three parts: deoxyribose ( a five carbon sugar) a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base. There are four crucial different nitrogenous bases that present in DNA: thymine, cytosine, adenine and guanine. These bases are the foundation of the genetic code. Sometime represented as T, C. A. G. this bases always pair up in the same way, adenine forms a bond with Thymine and cytosine bonds with guanine as shown in the below diagram. [1] 

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This four sequence of DNA have big role in living organisms, the main function of nucleic acids is to store and transmit genetic information and use that information to direct the synthesis of new protein.

Human DNA is nearly a meter in length whereas viral DNA is 1.7mm.  

DNA is the molecule which controls the synthesis of proteins. Proteins are used for growth and repair and also as enzymes, in which form they catalyse all other cellular activities. There are several kind of RNA and each of them have there own role during the biosynthesis ...

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