Nucleotides themselves are composed of three distinct parts: sugar ... an incredibly important role in forming DNA and RNA strands by linking each nucleotide to the next. If you imagine a strand ...

A deletion mutation occurs when a wrinkle forms on the DNA template strand and subsequently causes a nucleotide to be omitted from the replicated strand (Figure 3). Insertion or deletion of one or ...

In RNA, however, a base called uracil (U) replaces thymine (T) as the complementary nucleotide to adenine (Figure 3). This means that during elongation, the presence of adenine in the DNA template ...