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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 13, 2007.

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Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
February 18, 2004	Featured article review	Demoted
March 15, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
December 24, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
January 9, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
April 25, 2007	Featured article review	Kept
January 31, 2026	Featured article review	Demoted
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WP:URFA/2020

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I am reviewing this article as part of WP:URFA/2020, an initiative to review Wikipedia's oldest featured articles. It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a quick look and noticed lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Should this article go to WP:FAR? Z1720 (talk) 16:02, 24 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

New DNA image

Latest comment: 9 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Would editors here be interested in using something like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_nucleobase_pairs_of_DNA.svg as a replacement for File:DNA chemical structure.svg ? Geometry guy 18:37, 29 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: Genetics Fall 2025

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 August 2025 and 12 December 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Emrtrof (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Emrtrof (talk) 17:52, 21 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 24 October 2025

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In the "Simplified Diagram": draw a box around a "nucleoside" and label it as "Nucleoside" draw a box around a "nucleobase" and label it as "Nucleobase" Aikassis (talk) 16:56, 24 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Not done: That is an image taken from the Internet and cannot be edited directly. Day Creature (talk) 17:36, 24 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

single strand

Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

When did DNA become, by definition, double stranded????? DNA is the well-known polymer with a deoxyribose-phosphate sugar backbone. It most commonly (and no, I don't have a citation. Here I'm guessing.) the term referring to the double-stranded molecule-pair. From what I gather the pairing is accomplished by not just the h-bonding between bases, but also the several van der Waals forces between adjacent rings on the SAME chain. (Not to mention the histone octamer.) Anyway, my point is that chemically the single strand would be the one designated as poly(deoxyribosephosphate) and the double-strand would be...wait for it...double-stranded, or paired, DNA. In fact, the term DNA has several meanings. Claiming that it "is" (just) one of them is misleading.~2026-92463-4 (talk) 16:47, 13 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

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