{"id":405,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:03:18","slug":"purines-pyrimidines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Purines\/Pyrimidines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Purines and Pyrimidines are the building blocks of our DNA &amp; RNA. They carry the genetic code for all living creatures. A purine consists of a hexagonal shaped pyrimidine ring fused to a pentagonal shaped imidazole ring:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Purine_chemical_structure.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">purine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong>=<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Pyrimidine.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">pyrimidine\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">+<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 112px; height: 98px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Imidazole.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">imidazole<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 379px; height: 235px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Purines%20Pyrimidines.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our DNA molecule is<br \/>\nthe result of playful interactions <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our DNA molecule contains \u00b1 20 Billion hexagons and pentagons<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=598\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purines and Pyrimidines are the building blocks of our DNA &amp; RNA. They carry the genetic code for all living creatures. A purine consists of a hexagonal shaped pyrimidine ring fused to a pentagonal shaped imidazole ring: purine = pyrimidine\u00a0 + imidazole Our DNA molecule is the result of playful interactions Our DNA molecule contains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9670,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/9670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}