Deficiencies in this vitamin can lead to adrenal stress and high cortisol levels or cortisol depletion as your body attempts to make up for the vitamin deficiency by using this hormone's overdrive mechanism, which is usually reserved for emergencies, illness and other stressful events.
The reason why it is advantageous to have weak hydrogen bonds between complementary base pairs and strong covalent bonds between phoshate and deoxyribose groups in a DNA molecâ¦ule is because the strong covalent bonds running along the  ladder  of the DNA molecule ( the phospate and deoxyribose units ) keep the molecule together during its ...
a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms. covalent bond in Medicine Expand. covalent bond n. A chemical bond formed by the sharing of one or more electrons, especially pairs of electrons, between atoms. covalent bond. A chemical bond formed when electrons are shared between two atoms. Usually each atom contributes one electron to form a pair of electrons that are shared by both atoms. See more at coordinate bond, double bond, polar bond.