Module 4 : Bioorganic Chemistry of Nucleic Acids

Lecture 1 : History of Sugars and Bases and Nucleic Acids - II

4.10.1. ALL LIVING THINGS CONTAIN DNA

The stringy stuff in the test tube is DNA that has been extracted from an organism. But you can’t tell which one of these organisms it came from just by looking at it. That’s because DNA looks exactly the same in every organism on Earth.

4.10.2. THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF DNA