1 Chronic bronchitis: A form of COPD characterized by a chronic productive cough. 2  Emphysema: Lung damage allows air to be trapped in the lungs in this form of COPD. 3  Difficulty blowing air out is its hallmark. 4  Acute bronchitis: A sudden infection of the airways, usually by a virus.
There are only 46 DNA molecules ( 23 pairs) in human somatic cell. There are about 22000 genes and close to 3.2 billion base pairs in total.
A DNA molecule consists of two long polynucleotide chains composed of four types of nucleotide subunits. Each of these chains is known as a DNA chain, or a DNA strand. Hydrogen bonds between the base portions of the nucleotides hold the two chains together (Figure 4-3). As we saw in Chapter 2 (Panel 2-6, pp.