As early as 1943 Oswald Avery proved what had been suspected: that DNA, a nucleic acid, carries genetic information ... to the discovery of DNA's helical structure, Rosalind Franklin was not ...
More information: Florian Chenavier et al, Influenza a virus antiparallel helical nucleocapsid-like pseudo-atomic structure, Nucleic Acids Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae1211 Provided by CNRS ...
The sugar-phosphate backbone forms the structural framework of nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA ... each other and twist together in a helical shape. The sugar-phosphate backbone is negatively ...
For instance, in a 1971 essay on the history of nucleic acid research ... and Crick's derivation of the three-dimensional, double-helical model for the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick's ...
Later it was found that the sugar in nucleic acid can be ribose or deoxyribose ... She suspected that all DNA was helical but did not want to announce this finding until she had sufficient ...