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replication
translation
Purines: A, G
Pyrimidines: C, T, U [RNA]
Different forms of nucleic molecle representation
(1) Stick representation (2) Simplified representation
AGT ATC
3’ 5’ AGTATC 3’
P OH
5’
• A + T: 2 hydrogen bonds
• G + C: 3 hydrogen bonds
James Watson (left) and Francis Ball and stick model of DNA showing
Crick published the structure of individual atoms
DNA in Nature in 1953,
basically launching the field of
Biophysics