The bases - the letters of the genetic alphabet - consist of the four nucleotides mentioned a page or two back: adenine, thiamine, guanine, and cytosine.
For example, you convert formaldehyde into a compound called formate, which helps make the nucleic acids adenine and guanine — two of the four building blocks of DNA.
举个例子,你把甲醛转化成种叫做甲酸的化合物,它能帮助生成核酸腺嘌呤和嘌呤——这是 DNA 的四个组成部分中的两个。
Nucleotides of DNA are made out of a sugar deoxyribose, a phosphate, and one of the four nuclear bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine or A, C, G, T for short.
Nucleotides of DNA are made up of a sugar - deoxyribose, a phosphate, and one of the four nucleobases - adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine - or A, C, G, T for short.
You may be more familiar with its role in DNA, but crystalline guanine is also a highly reflective material that can be seen everywhere in nature, from fish scales to chameleon skin.
你可能更熟悉它在 DNA 中的作用,但结晶嘌呤也是种高反射材料,在自然界中随处可见,从鱼鳞到变色龙皮肤。
It's composed of long strands of nucleotides, each made up of a sugar molecule, a phosphate group, and one of four nitrogen bases: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), or guanine (G).