This article was originally published with the title “ The Nucleotide Sequence of a Nucleic Acid ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 2 (February 1966), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...

Although the vast majority of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may never prove to be important medically or agriculturally, some could play an important ...

In order to understand how regulatory mechanisms work, it's first necessary to understand that not all nucleotide sequences in a strand of DNA code for the production of proteins. Rather ...