How does what you eat effect the nucleic acids in your body?

Subject: How does what you eat effect the nucleic acids in your body?

Date: Sun Oct 1 19:31:59 2000
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Area of science: Biochemistry
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In science we're studying about "you are what you eat", and I understand 
how that applies to carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, but how does what 
you eat effect your nucleic acids? Do the foods your mother eats when 
you're in the womb go to make up the nucleic acids, or what?

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