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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

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Contents 1 Parent topics 2 Subtopics 3 Related topics 4 Biographies relevant to DNA

Parent topics

• Biology [r]: The science of life, of systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
• Chromosome [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
• Genome [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nucleic acid [r]: A class of macromolecules important in conveying genetic information. [e]
• Polymer [r]: A compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller, similar molecules (monomers), or by the condensation of many smaller, similar molecules eliminating water, alcohol, etc. [e]

Subtopics

• Nucleotides [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Deoxyribose [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bases [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Adenine [r]: A base incorporated into DNA and RNA and part of an energy carrier, as ATP, in metabolism. [e]
  • Cytosine [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Guanine [r]: Natural biomolecule used as one of the five bases in RNA and DNA. [e]
  • Thymine [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Gene [r]: The functional unit of heredity. [e]
• Codon [r]: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Amino acid [r]: In biochemistry, an α-amino acid is an organic monomer consisting of an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen atom, and a residual group (commonly denoted as simply "R") covalently bonded to a central (alpha) carbon (Cα). [e]
• Capsid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cell [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks and a membrane. [e]
• Cell nucleus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chloroplast [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Eukaryote [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hydrogen bond [r]: A non-covalent and non-ionic chemical bond involving a hydrogen atom and either Fluorine, Nitrogen, or Oxygen. [e]
• Mitochondrion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nucleoid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phenotype [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Protein [r]: A polymer of amino acids; basic building block of living systems. [e]
• Ribosome [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Translation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Virus [r]: A microscopic particle that can infect the cells of a biological organism and cannot reproduce without the assistance of the cells it infects [e]

Biographies relevant to DNA

• Alec Jeffreys
• Alfred Hershey
• Alfred Sturtevant
• Allan Maxam
• Annie Chang
• Arthur Kornberg
• Barbara McClintock
• Colin MacLeod
• Craig Venter
• David Botstein
• Ed Southern
• Edward Tatum
• Erich von Tschermak
• Erwin Chargaff
• Francis Crick
• Franklin Stahl
• Frederick Griffith
• Frederick Sanger
• Friedrich Miescher
• George Beadle
• Gregor Mendel
• Hamilton Smith
• Har Gobind Khorana
• Harriet Creighton
• Herbert Boyer
• Hermann J. Muller
• Howard Temin
• Hugo de Vries
• James D. Watson
• James Gusella
• Joseph Sambrook
• Karl Correns
• Kary Mullis
• Kent Wilcox
• Leroy Hood
• Lloyd Smith
• Maclyn McCarty
• Mark Skolnick
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg
• Martha Chase
• Matthew Meselson
• Maurice Wilkins
• Oswald Theodore Avery
• Patrick Brown
• Paul Berg
• Phoebus Levene
• Ray White
• Raymond Gosling
• Robert W. Holley
• Ronald Davis
• Rosalind Franklin
• Stanley Cohen
• Thomas Hunt Morgan
• Walter Gilbert
• William Astbury