{"id":8600,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nucleic_acid\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:28","slug":"nucleic_acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nucleic_acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nucleic acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A complex organic acid or macromolecule in living cells made up a long chain of nucleotides, of which there are two types,&nbsp;DNA and RNA. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaftb.org\/15\/bio.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.dnaftb.org\/15\/bio.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friedrich Miescher <\/a>(1844-1895) is credited with discovering nucleic acids in 1869, and went on to suggest they could play a role in heredity. &nbsp;Current research on nucleic acids forms a major part what we know as genomics. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adenine\">Adenine<\/a>, <a href=\"cell\">Cell<\/a>, <a href=\"fibroblasts\">Fibroblasts<\/a>, <a href=\"dna_-deoxyribonucleic_acid-\">DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"genomics\">Genomics<\/a>, <a href=\"hereditary\">Hereditary<\/a>, <a href=\"nucleotide\">Nucleotide<\/a>, <a href=\"polymerization\">Polymerization<\/a>, <a href=\"rna_-ribonucleic_acid-\">RNA (ribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"prion_-proteinaceous_infectious_particle-\">Prion (proteinaceous infectious particle)<\/a>, <a href=\"protein_tyrosine_kinase\">Protein tyrosine kinase<\/a>, Pyrimidines<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A complex organic acid or macromolecule in living cells made up a long chain of nucleotides, of which there are two types,&nbsp;DNA and RNA. &nbsp;Friedrich Miescher (1844-1895) is credited with discovering nucleic acids in 1869, and went on to suggest they could play a role in heredity. &nbsp;Current research on nucleic acids forms a major &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nucleic_acid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nucleic acid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}