The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... ( adenine and guanine ) and the pyri- midines ( thymine and cytosine ) have different shapes . The resulting backbone would have to show minor in- and - out buckles depending upon whether pairs of purines or pyrimidines were in the center ...
... ( adenine and guanine ) and the pyri- midines ( thymine and cytosine ) have different shapes . The resulting backbone would have to show minor in- and - out buckles depending upon whether pairs of purines or pyrimidines were in the center ...
Page 187
... adenine with adenine sugar N N N N C N sugar cytosine with cytosine N N N C sugar N N N H sugar sugar N H guanine with guanine thymine with thymine The four base pairs used to construct the like - with - like structure ( hydrogen bonds ...
... adenine with adenine sugar N N N N C N sugar cytosine with cytosine N N N C sugar N N N H sugar sugar N H guanine with guanine thymine with thymine The four base pairs used to construct the like - with - like structure ( hydrogen bonds ...
Page 188
... adenine always to be inserted opposite an adenine resi- due on the template strands . As the clock went past midnight I was becoming more and more pleased . There had been far too many days when Francis and I worried that the DNA struc ...
... adenine always to be inserted opposite an adenine resi- due on the template strands . As the clock went past midnight I was becoming more and more pleased . There had been far too many days when Francis and I worried that the DNA struc ...
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