Radio Stars. Quasars are the brightest and most distant objects in the known universe. In the early 1960's, quasars were referred to as radio stars because they were discovered to be a strong source of radio waves. In fact, the term quasar comes from the words, quasi-stellar radio source.
The following DNA sequence occurs in the nontemplate strand of a structural gene in bacterium (the promoter sequence is located to the left but is not shown): 5 -GAATGTCAGAACTGCCATGCTTCATATGAATAGACCTCTAG-3 What is the ribonucleotide sequence of mRNA molecule that is transcribed from this piece of DNA?
A large part of DNA (more than 98% for humans) is non-coding, meaning that these sections do not serve as patterns for protein sequences. The two strands of DNA run in opposite directions to each other and are thus antiparallel. Attached to each sugar is one of four types of nucleobases (informally, bases).