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chemical structure of DNA and RNA

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adenosine triphosphate inosinic acid adenylic acid nucleotide sequence uridine triphosphate uridine monophosphate uridine diphosphate UDP-glucose thymidylic acid thiamin pyrophosphate nucleoside DNA RNA base pair

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nucleic acid: Nucleotides: building blocks of nucleic acids

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Lindahl, Tomas

Tomas Lindahl

Swedish biochemist

Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar

Turkish-American biochemist

Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.

Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd

British biochemist