Sequence in nucleic acids

Cambridge) the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids. 

Fiskin, A. M., and M. Beer. 1965. Determination of Base Sequence in Nucleic Acids with the Electron Microscope. IV. Nucleoside Complexes with Certain Metal Ions. Biochem. 4,1287. 

Consensus sequence. In nucleic acids, the average sequence that signals a certain type of action by a specific protein. The sequences actually observed usually vary around this average. 

In the 1970s he developed a widely used technique of using gel electrophoresis to read nucleotide sequences of DNA segments. The same method was developed independently by Frederick Sanger, and they both won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1980 for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids. ... 

Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger For their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids. ... 

In the body, the energy derived from food is released as body heat and also used in the synthesis of ATP. The energy captured in ATP is then transformed into other forms, i.e., chemical (synthesis of new compounds), mechanical (muscle contraction), electrical (nerve activity), electrochemical (various ion pumps), thermal (maintenance of body temperature), and informational (base sequences in nucleic acids, amino acids in proteins). In general, the energy of food provides for the specific dynamic action of food, the maintenance of the body s basal metabolism, and the energy expenditure associated with various types of activity. 

Genetic code the rules for translation of base sequences in nucleic acids into amino acid sequences in polypeptides (see Protein synthesis). The nucleic acid bases are read off as triplets. There are four bases, and thus 64 (43) different permutations ( words ). As there are only 20 amino acids specified by the code, many triplets can be, and are, redundant. The table lists the amino acids by triplet, or codon. 

The role of nucleotide sequences in nucleic acids as a source of information for the synthesis of proteins and cell reduplication. 

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