The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... genetics . That was not to say that the geneticists themselves provided any intellectual help . You would have thought that with all their talk about genes they should worry about what they were . Yet almost none of them seemed to take ...
... genetics . That was not to say that the geneticists themselves provided any intellectual help . You would have thought that with all their talk about genes they should worry about what they were . Yet almost none of them seemed to take ...
Page 127
... geneticists intrigued by gene du- plication . The argument went that gene duplication required the formation of a complementary ( nega- tive ) image where shape was related to the original ( positive ) surface like a lock to a key . The ...
... geneticists intrigued by gene du- plication . The argument went that gene duplication required the formation of a complementary ( nega- tive ) image where shape was related to the original ( positive ) surface like a lock to a key . The ...
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... genetics looked unsound to the Cal Tech geneticists . Nevertheless , he would accede to my re- quest that he send it to the Proceedings of the Na- tional Academy . In this way , I would still be young when I committed the folly of ...
... genetics looked unsound to the Cal Tech geneticists . Nevertheless , he would accede to my re- quest that he send it to the Proceedings of the Na- tional Academy . In this way , I would still be young when I committed the folly of ...
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