Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins. In reality, there is much more to the RNA story. However ...

Kossel isolated cytosine from calf thymus tissues and found that it was a component of nucleic acids. This discovery, along with the identification of other nitrogenous bases, laid the foundation for ...