DNA: Its properties

Some of the properties of the DNA are listed below:
1) Double helical
2) Acidic in nature
3) Shows antiparallelity
4) Shows confirmational flexibility (alternative structures) and bending
5) Binds with basic histone proteins
6) Absorbs UV light at 260 nm (heterocyclic rings of nucleotides absorb in the UV region)
7) Undergoes reversible strand separation; many DNA molecules are circular; local unwinding [...]

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