Because this truncated replication occurs over and over again, nucleic acids of varying lengths accumulate and can be used to determine the position of each nucleotide in the sequence. In order to ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Nucleotide Sequence of a Nucleic Acid ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 2 (February 1966), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...

Although the vast majority of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may never prove to be important medically or agriculturally, some could play an important ...

A single DNA nucleotide, the base unit of the human ... So how, then, do researchers determine the sequence of A's, G's, C's, and T's that comprise the genome? The answer is that they've had ...