NUCLEIC ACID

NUCLEIC ACIDS

• Allow organisms to transfer genetic information
• Made of monomers and nucleotides
• Nucleic acids were discovered by Friedrich Miescher in 1869.
• They can also store genetic information
• Nucleic acid is the overall name for dna and rna

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DNA AND RNA

• Parents and children share 99.5% of the same dna
• To the sun and back 600 times
• You share 90% of dna with chimpanzees

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