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ddNTPs - Dideoxynucleotides and abbreviated as ddNTPs.

They are chain-elongating inhibitors of DNA polymerase, used in the Sanger method for DNA sequencing.

They have a hydrogen at the 3’ carbon of the ribose sugar.

World day against Child Labour was launched by International Labour Organisation on 12 june 2013.Main objectiveof this year is "Say no to child labour in domestic work"

India does not have any lake or sea comparable with the Great Lakes of the united States or the Caspian Sea of the CIS.

Railway Coaches and wagons are manufactured in Perambur, Chennai.

The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society's highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers—brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines. The Von Hippel Award is named after Arthur von Hippel (1898-2003), who was a pioneer in the study of dielectrics, semiconductors, ferromagnetics and ferroelectrics.

Eminent Scientist and Bharat Ratna Prof C.N.R. Rao was awarded 2017 Von Hippel Award. He is first Indian and first Asian to win this honour. The award will be presented to Prof Rao for his interdisciplinary contributions to development of novel functional materials, including nanomaterials, graphene, superconductivity, 2D materials and colossal magnetoresistance at Boston in November 2017.