Laying the Groundwork: Levene Investigates the Structure of DNA Meanwhile ... the first to discover the carbohydrate component of DNA (deoxyribose); and the first to correctly identify the ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Later it was found that the sugar in nucleic acid can be ribose or deoxyribose ... This way DNA can reproduce itself without changing its structure -- except for occasional errors, or mutations.

A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid This highly readable, classic paper describes the Nobel-Prize-winning discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. In the paper, James Watson and ...

1 In their 1953 publication on the DNA double helix, Watson and Crick stated: "It is probably impossible to form this structure with ribose, instead of deoxyribose." The reason: The 2' hydroxyl on ...

The basic units (monomers) of DNA are nucleotides. These nucleotides consist of a deoxyribose sugar, phosphate and base. The nucleotides are identical except for the base, which can be an adenine ...

The double helical structure is made of two strands consisting of deoxyribose and phosphate and is held together ... It combines data from DNA sequencing, gene expression, and protein function to try ...