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... phosphate groups . A further complication arose from the fact that four types of nucleotides were found in DNA . In this sense , DNA was not a regular molecule but a highly irregular one . The four nucleotides were not , how- ever ...
... phosphate groups . A further complication arose from the fact that four types of nucleotides were found in DNA . In this sense , DNA was not a regular molecule but a highly irregular one . The four nucleotides were not , how- ever ...
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... phosphate groups of the DNA backbone . Francis , as well as I , knew almost nothing about how inorganic ions were arranged in three di- mensions . We had to face the bleak situation that the world authority on the structural chemistry ...
... phosphate groups of the DNA backbone . Francis , as well as I , knew almost nothing about how inorganic ions were arranged in three di- mensions . We had to face the bleak situation that the world authority on the structural chemistry ...
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... phosphate groups in Linus ' model were not ion- ized , but that each group contained a bound hydrogen atom and so had no net charge . Pauling's nucleic acid in a sense was not an acid at all . Moreover , the un- charged phosphate groups ...
... phosphate groups in Linus ' model were not ion- ized , but that each group contained a bound hydrogen atom and so had no net charge . Pauling's nucleic acid in a sense was not an acid at all . Moreover , the un- charged phosphate groups ...
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