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... ions was Linus Pauling himself . Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrange- ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a ...
... ions was Linus Pauling himself . Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrange- ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a ...
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... ions were decisively important for nucleic - acid structure . Especially intriguing was his hunch that specific ions might be the trick for the exact copying of macro- molecules or the attraction between similar chromo- somes . There ...
... ions were decisively important for nucleic - acid structure . Especially intriguing was his hunch that specific ions might be the trick for the exact copying of macro- molecules or the attraction between similar chromo- somes . There ...
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... ion- ized , but that each group contained a bound hydrogen atom and so had no net charge . Pauling's nucleic acid in a ... ions held the chains together would have made no sense if there were hydrogen atoms firmly bound to the phosphates ...
... ion- ized , but that each group contained a bound hydrogen atom and so had no net charge . Pauling's nucleic acid in a ... ions held the chains together would have made no sense if there were hydrogen atoms firmly bound to the phosphates ...
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