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... ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a copy of Pauling's classic book , The Nature of the Chemical Bond . Then we were having lunch near High Street ...
... ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a copy of Pauling's classic book , The Nature of the Chemical Bond . Then we were having lunch near High Street ...
Page 86
... ment of the positions for only a couple of nucleotides automatically generated the arrangement of all the other components . The routine assembly task was over by one , when Francis and I walked over to the Eagle for our habit- ual ...
... ment of the positions for only a couple of nucleotides automatically generated the arrangement of all the other components . The routine assembly task was over by one , when Francis and I walked over to the Eagle for our habit- ual ...
Page 186
... ment that each base in the newly synthesized chain always hydrogen - bonds to an identical base . That night , however , I could not see why the common tautomeric form of guanine would not hydrogen- bond to adenine . Likewise , several ...
... ment that each base in the newly synthesized chain always hydrogen - bonds to an identical base . That night , however , I could not see why the common tautomeric form of guanine would not hydrogen- bond to adenine . Likewise , several ...
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