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Sugar found in DNA could rival minoxidil in the fight against baldness (without the nasty side effects)
In DNA, 2-deoxy-D-ribose molecules link together through phosphate groups to form a sugar-phosphate backbone. This backbone ...
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DNA Is a Structure That Encodes Biological Information
This means that one strand's sugar-phosphate chain runs in ... and Francis Crick were pursuing a definitive model for the stable structure of DNA inside cell nuclei. Watson and Crick ultimately ...
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Discovery of DNA Structure and Function: Watson and Crick
For instance, he was the first to discover the order of the three major components of a single nucleotide (phosphate-sugar-base ... double-helical model for the structure of DNA.