THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
STRUCTURE OF NUCLEIC ACIDS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nucleic acids are found in all living things, including the foods you eat. Based on current research, meat, fish, seafood, legumes, and mushrooms contain the highest levels of these compounds.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a new compound from the nuclei of white blood cells. This compound was neither a protein nor lipid nor a carbohydrate; therefore, it was a novel type of biological molecule.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is well known that the nucleic acids (NAs) ingested from food are metabolized in the digestive tract by endonucleases, phosphodiesterases and nucleoside phosphorylase into oligonucleotides, nucleotides, and even free bases.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which statement is true of nucleic acids? DNA carries information for making RNA.