Scientists are testing bone from Nikumaroro to learn if DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, can be recovered from it.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

Fatty acid chains are fat molecules, they behave, if you have a lot of them in solution like oil.

脂肪酸链就是脂肪分子,它们看上去好像,如果你见过富含脂类的溶液,比如油

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Proteins are only susceptible to phosphorylation if they have certain kinds of amino acid sequences.

只有含这些氨基酸的蛋白质,才能够被磷酸化

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If I drew this altogether and this is one particular nucleic acid, now shown in more detail, all of the carbons of the pentose are shown here, the phosphate is shown, and a base is shown.

如果我把这个放在一起,这个核酸分子,让你们看得到更多细节,戊糖的五个碳都在这儿,磷酸基在这儿,碱基在这儿

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