Quality and accessibility of targeted nucleic acid was assessed by controls.
It turns out that clay (montmorillonite/kaolinite) adsorbed nucleic acid undergoes less radiation damage than free nucleic acid.
In later stages of evolution, a group of enzymatic proteins, nucleic acid polymerases, has been selected to catalyse nucleic acid replication.
Currently, nucleic acid synthesis inside the cell is a template-directed process catalysed by nucleic acid polymerases which constitute a group of very evolved molecules.
The number of experiments needed here and also for nucleic acid assignments strongly depends on the degree of spectral overlap.
The variables considered were the number and size of the electrophoretically separated nucleic acid fragments.
Charged side chains form electrostatic surfaces complementary to the nucleic acid.
Indeed, nucleic acid detection is likely to be a key component in plans for both space-based and sample-return life detection.
