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... hydrogen bonds , it was now obvious to me that we had done so incorrectly . The observa- tion that one or more hydrogen atoms on each of the bases could move from one location to another ( a tautomeric shift ) had initially led us to ...
... hydrogen bonds , it was now obvious to me that we had done so incorrectly . The observa- tion that one or more hydrogen atoms on each of the bases could move from one location to another ( a tautomeric shift ) had initially led us to ...
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... hydrogen - bonding possibilities , had not been finished on time . At least ... bonds . Though I initially went back to my like - with - like prejudices , I ... hydrogen bonds was identical in shape to a guanine - cytosine pair ...
... hydrogen - bonding possibilities , had not been finished on time . At least ... bonds . Though I initially went back to my like - with - like prejudices , I ... hydrogen bonds was identical in shape to a guanine - cytosine pair ...
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... ( hydrogen bonds are dot- ted ) . The formation of a third hydrogen bond between guanine and cytosine was considered , but rejected because a crystallographic study of guanine hinted that it would be very weak . Now this conjecture is ...
... ( hydrogen bonds are dot- ted ) . The formation of a third hydrogen bond between guanine and cytosine was considered , but rejected because a crystallographic study of guanine hinted that it would be very weak . Now this conjecture is ...
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