Nucleic acid<span> typically contain phosphorous, and nitrogen plays an important structural role in nucleic acids and proteins. The proteins, being made up a diverse set of amino acids, have, in addition to carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, the elements sulfur and selenium.</span>
Today, drug-resistant infections are a serious threat to people's health. Hundreds of thousands of lives are lost every year because of infections that can no longer be treated with existing drugs. Discovering new antibiotics, able to kill drug-resistant bacteria, is essential to saving modern medicine.
All cells contain genetic information in the form of DNA molecules. ... Empirical evidence is required to differentiate between cause and correlation and to make claims about the role of DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for the characteristic traits passed from parents to offspring.
