It is also one of the world's most important commercial waterways and one of North America's great migration routes for both birds and fishes. Native Americans lived along its banks and used the river for sustenance and transportation.
Sharks have a cartilaginous skeleton. Cartilage is less dense than bone which allows sharks to move quickly through the water without using too much energy.
Nucleic acids are the biopolymers, or small biomolecules, essential to all known forms of life. The term nucleic acid is the overall name for DNA and RNA.