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I doubt that Bradford will agree, as he seems to think that papers published in Nucleic Acids Research are far more important than those published in Science or Nature or Cell.
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Nucleic-acid chains are notoriously fragile, and tend to snap long before they have acquired the fifty or so base pairs needed for them to act as enzymes.
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Nucleic acid amplification assays are now an integral and necessary part of the Virology Laboratory and continuous improvement, automation, and simplification of the technology have made these tests easier and more accessible to use.
Virology Laboratory 2010
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Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) themselves were not formed.
Ambiguity Tolerance 2008
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Nucleic acids and carboxyls (or whatever, its been a long time since I was in school, canchatell?) are relatively large classes (in the nested hierarchy), and why can't 16 amino acids work as well, or five different nts?
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Church, “The cleavage site of the restriction endonuclease Ava II,” Nucleic Acids Research 5 1978, 2313–2319.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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(Nucleic protein synthesis actually occurs in cytoplasmic ribosomes.)
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Nucleic acids are not information retentive by definition.
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Nucleic acids have fixed chemical properties that do not vary with time.
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Nucleic acids and proteins are among the working entities
Molecular Biology Darden, Lindley 2009
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