The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... fact affected my cas- ual pursuit of chemistry . For why should I get excited learning boring chemical facts as long as the chemists never provided anything incisive about the nucleic acids ? The odds , however , were against any real ...
... fact affected my cas- ual pursuit of chemistry . For why should I get excited learning boring chemical facts as long as the chemists never provided anything incisive about the nucleic acids ? The odds , however , were against any real ...
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... fact that Paul- ing's deductions about symmetry were no more in- spired than our awkward efforts of the year before would , I thought , amuse her . The result was just the opposite . Instead , she became increasingly annoyed with my ...
... fact that Paul- ing's deductions about symmetry were no more in- spired than our awkward efforts of the year before would , I thought , amuse her . The result was just the opposite . Instead , she became increasingly annoyed with my ...
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... fact that the two glycosidic bonds ( joining base and sugar ) of each base pair were systematically related by a diad axis perpendicular to the helical axis . Thus , both pairs could be flipflopped over and still have their glycosidic ...
... fact that the two glycosidic bonds ( joining base and sugar ) of each base pair were systematically related by a diad axis perpendicular to the helical axis . Thus , both pairs could be flipflopped over and still have their glycosidic ...
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