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dr_stupid

 What’s your favourite nucleic acid?
#poll
Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine
Thymine
Uracil*
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Anonymous 7w

Oh this is a good one for the neurodivergents lol 😂 legit picked thymine cuz I like the way the word feels in my mouth better :3

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Anonymous 7w

I know that cations are far superior to anions

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Anonymous 7w

Adenine girl since 9th grade what can I say 🤷‍♀️

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Anonymous 7w

Why does Uracil have an Asterisk?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6w

It’s not one of the four nucleic acids of DNA, but is rather the substitute for thymine in RNA :)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

Uracil *can* appear in DNA, but usually that means something has gone wrong, and you hope the dna repair mechanism works

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