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A QUESTION of great interest has been raised by Gulland, Barker and Jordan when they object to a nucleic acid terminology proposed by us1. We suggested that the terms 'chromonucleic' and 'plasmonucleic acid' be used as synonyms for 'desoxyribose' and 'ribose nucleic acid' respectively2. The latter terms are useful because they clearly denote an essential difference in chemical composition of the two known types of nucleic acid; the former terms would be useful because they describe the striking biological distribution of the two nucleic acids.
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POLLISTER, A., MIRSKY, A. Distribution of Nucleic Acids. Nature 153, 711 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153711a0
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