I would like to respond to the following exchange:
><ME>Hi.
ME>I wonder why in the name of DNA, deoksiribonucleic acid, is the acid
ME>part, because the DNA molecule has mostly base-parts on it?
ME>MJS
DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid, not deoksiribonucleic acid.
Hamed>
I was taught that the acid in nucleic acids (this means RNA as well as
DNA) is from the negatively charged phosphate groups in the
sugar-phosphate backbone of the molecule.
Infectionately,
Yersinia.
