The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... arguments needed to under- stand how Linus Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that ... argument , but in most cases words would have sufficed . The key to Linus ' success was his reliance on the simple ...
... arguments needed to under- stand how Linus Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that ... argument , but in most cases words would have sufficed . The key to Linus ' success was his reliance on the simple ...
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... argument justified all this fuss . She became positively aggressive when we got on the topic of Mg ++ ions that held together the phosphate groups of our three - chain model . This feature had no appeal at all to Rosy , who curtly ...
... argument justified all this fuss . She became positively aggressive when we got on the topic of Mg ++ ions that held together the phosphate groups of our three - chain model . This feature had no appeal at all to Rosy , who curtly ...
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... argument hinted that adenine and thy- mine should stick to each other by their flat surfaces . A similar argument could be put forward for attrac- tive forces between guanine and cytosine . Francis immediately jumped at the answer . If ...
... argument hinted that adenine and thy- mine should stick to each other by their flat surfaces . A similar argument could be put forward for attrac- tive forces between guanine and cytosine . Francis immediately jumped at the answer . If ...
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