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Chemical Constituentsof Organisms: Part IV
DNA
 
The amino acid sequence of a polypeptide isprogrammed by a unit of inheritance called a
gene
Genes are made of DNA, a
nucleic acid
Nucleic acids store and transmit hereditary information
 
DNA polymers are very long molecules
 – DNA is supercoiledand bundled into 23 chromosomesfor packaging in the cell nucleus
The sequence of heterocyclic amine bases in DNAencodes the genetic information required tosynthesize proteins
 – Only four different bases are used for the code in DNA – A section of DNA that encodes for a specific protein iscalled a
gene 
 – The set of all genetic information coded by the DNA in anorganism is its
genome 
 – The set of all proteins encoded in the genome of anorganism and expressed at any given time is its
proteome 
The sequence of the human genome is providingvaluable information related to human health
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