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The Pros And Cons Of Zna

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If you are sitting on a bus and you look around, you will see a variety of people riding with you. There will be men and women of different races or ethnicity, but everyone in the world is 99.99 percent alike. Scientists have known about this since the discovery of DNA and RNA in the nuclei of cells. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, carries the set of genetic instructions for everyone. What if there was a way that an organism could live without completely relying on DNA? Scientists are working on a new type of genetic acid for alteration and creation. The new acid is called ZNA. The "z" in ZNA, stands for xeno nucleic acid. ZNA would still have the same double helix shape as DNA, but would have different bases. ZNA would not have natural bases

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