Molecular

Chemical structure of DNA

Chemical structure of DNA
Chemical structure of DNA. By Thomas Shafee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A chemical drawing of a short, four-base-pair stretch of the DNA double helix by Thomas Shafee. It shows how the sugar-phosphate backbones run in opposite directions and how the bases pair across the two strands.

This illustration was created by Thomas Shafee and is not Sterling IMRES work. It is shown under CC BY 4.0. Reuse it only on the terms of that licence and credit the creator.

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