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chemical structure of DNA and RNA

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adenosine triphosphate inosinic acid deoxyuridylic acid thymidylic acid UDP-glucose uridine diphosphate uridine monophosphate uridine triphosphate nucleotide sequence mononucleotide nucleoside DNA base pair RNA

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Lindahl, Tomas

Tomas Lindahl

Swedish biochemist

Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar

Turkish-American biochemist

Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.

Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd

British biochemist