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Compressed Representation[edit]

Does anyone have information about the recent news that DNA is in a compressed form and that the "junk" is actually part of the decompression mechanics? (kind of like a zip file) That would be an important addition to this article. Actually, it makes sense that the genome would be in the most compressed state to make reproduction efficient.

Acidity[edit]

Since this is Deoxyribonucleic acid, something should be said under "Properties" about its quite strong acidity. It is a polymer of phosphate esters, and "Since a monophosphate ester of this kind is a strong acid (pKa of 1.0), it will be fully ionized at the usual physiological pH (ca.7.4)." I.e. it will be in its conjugate base form in the cell. And the negative charge repels many nucleophiles that would otherwise attack it, so reducing the rate of nucleophilic hydrolysis by several orders of magnitude (these points sourced on this Michigan State University page Nucleic Acids.

Desoxy- or Deoxy-ribonucleic acid??[edit]

At some point the name changed from 'desoxy' to 'deoxy'. In the piece there is a reference to one paper (ref 192 today) from 1944 which uses the 'desoxy' name. Mr Google does not seem to know (or I am entering the wrong question) - does anyone know? Certainly by the time of W&C's 1953 paper the 'deoxy' name had become normal. Cross Reference (talk) 19:50, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Dag Hammarskjöld won the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. ---- MountVic127 (talk) 14:53, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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