Decoding The Building Blocks Of Dna: Nucleotides, Nucleosomes, And The Double Helix
The basic building blocks of DNA are nucleotides, composed of a nitrogenous base (adenine, thymine, guanine, or cytosine), a sugar-phosphate backbone, and a phosphate group. These nucleotides link together to form the iconic double helix structure of DNA, with paired bases (adenine with thymine, guanine with cytosine) creating the backbone and antiparallel strands forming the…