Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12.6, Problem 3RIA
Outline the way in which purines and pyrimidines are synthesized. How is the deoxyribose component of deoxyribonucleotides made?
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Prescott's Microbiology
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