The fundamental units of culture, like DNA.
The rights of man ReprintsThis happened long ago to the other fundamental units of measurement.
Cytology, the study of cells as fundamental units of living things.
The chromosomes can be further described as containing the fundamental units of heredity, the genes.
Memes, they say, are the fundamental units of culture, like DNA.
Featural writing systems exploit the fact that even phonemes are not the most fundamental units of analysis of speech.
It seems as if, for a brief period every four years, the fundamental units of democracy were not individual voters, but rivalrous and contending teams, political debate turning into mass sport.
Planck had little clue, but he reveled in the possibility he had discovered fundamental units of length and time that would be the same for all civilizations throughout the universe.
For centuries, Aristotelian science had taught that the fundamental units of being were substances, in which qualities or "accidents" were lodged: thus, a cow is a substance, the redness of the cow an accident.
He used this hypothesis further to explain the French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes of gases (1808) by assuming that the fundamental units of elementary gases may actually divide during chemical reactions.
Nucleotides, the fundamental units of RNA (ribonucleic acid) and DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), contain a phosphate molecule attached to a nucleoside, a compound made up of a ribose moiety and a purine or pyrimidine base.
