The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... atom # 5 to sugar carbon atom # 3 of the adjacent nucleotide . As organic chemists they were con- cerned with how the atoms were linked together , leaving to ... atoms . cules would be identical and there would not exist the.
... atom # 5 to sugar carbon atom # 3 of the adjacent nucleotide . As organic chemists they were con- cerned with how the atoms were linked together , leaving to ... atoms . cules would be identical and there would not exist the.
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... atoms unique to DNA . Neither phosphorus atoms nor the purine and pyrimidine bases were on hand . Rapid improvisation would be necessary since there was no din base O sugar phosphate A schematic view of a nucleotide , showing that the ...
... atoms unique to DNA . Neither phosphorus atoms nor the purine and pyrimidine bases were on hand . Rapid improvisation would be necessary since there was no din base O sugar phosphate A schematic view of a nucleotide , showing that the ...
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... atoms , the chains would immediately fly apart and the structure vanish . Everything I knew about nucleic - acid chemistry indicated that phosphate groups never contained bound hydrogen atoms . No one had ever questioned that DNA was a ...
... atoms , the chains would immediately fly apart and the structure vanish . Everything I knew about nucleic - acid chemistry indicated that phosphate groups never contained bound hydrogen atoms . No one had ever questioned that DNA was a ...
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