Sentence examples for nucleic from inspiring English sources
adjective
Referring to the nucleus of something. (As nucleic acids are found in the nucleus of cells.)
You know – proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids.
Dr Wang's starting point is the redundancy of the genetic code used by nucleic acids.
Some people want to go beyond the toolkit that evolution has provided and create biological systems that work with a chemistry that is not found in natural living things.Biology's operating system relies on two sorts of molecule: nucleic acids and amino acids.
Yet nestling amid the quarks and transistors and the nucleic acids and nanotubes, there is a question.
"WE WISH to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A ..".
This code is spelled out in the genetic "letters" A, C, G and T, which correspond to chemical sub-units of nucleic acids.
All but three of the codons correspond to particular amino acids, and the order of the codons in the nucleic acid corresponds to the order of the amino acids in the protein.
Rather than encoding ones and zeroes into high and low voltages that switch transistors on and off, the idea is to use high and low concentrations of these molecules to propagate signals through a kind of computational soup.Computing with nucleic acids is much slower than using transistors.
Gene chips contain thousands of probes, each imbued with a different nucleic acid from known (and unknown) genes to bind with m-RNA.
These synthesised strands typically consist of fewer than 100 bases (a gene, by contrast, has thousands of bases).Leonard Adleman, an American computer scientist, first demonstrated the use of nucleic-acid strand interactions for computing in 1994.
Nucleic-acid amplification, a technique for sifting through blood samples looking for SARSDNA, yields only patchy results.
