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You can't read the atoms in DNA one after the other and make a list. Discrete units of information on DNA strands are not atoms. They are nucleotides or base p
by gravitycop 18y ago
You can't read the atoms in DNA one after the other and make a list.
Discrete units of information on DNA strands are not atoms. They are nucleotides or base pairs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair
- ars 18y agoI know, I was just trying to keep things simple. Or, you can use the other definition of atom: indivisible part, and an atom of DNA is it's smallest building block :)