Thursday, 19 January 2012
IMAGE: Editorial Image // DNA Strand Resarch
A bit of research on DNA so I can grasp a proper idea of what I'm going to be drawing.
DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called
nucleotides, with backbones made of sugars and phosphate groups joined
by ester bonds. These two strands run in opposite directions to each
other and are therefore anti-parallel. Attached to each sugar is one of
four types of molecules called nucleobases (informally, bases). It is the sequence of these four nucleobases along the backbone that encodes information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic acid RNA in a process called transcription.