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... protein molecules . Francis , however , did not worry about these skeptics . Many were cantankerous fools who unfailingly backed the wrong horses . One could not be a success- ful scientist without realizing that , in contrast to the ...
... protein molecules . Francis , however , did not worry about these skeptics . Many were cantankerous fools who unfailingly backed the wrong horses . One could not be a success- ful scientist without realizing that , in contrast to the ...
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... protein chemist and a nucleic - acid chemist . Though only about one half the mass of a bacterial virus was DNA ( the other half being protein ) , Avery's experiment made it smell like the essential genetic material . So working out ...
... protein chemist and a nucleic - acid chemist . Though only about one half the mass of a bacterial virus was DNA ( the other half being protein ) , Avery's experiment made it smell like the essential genetic material . So working out ...
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... protein and RNA compo- nents were likely to be constructed along radically different lines . By now , however , protein subunits were easy to imagine in large numbers . Just the oppo- site was true of RNA . Division of the RNA compo ...
... protein and RNA compo- nents were likely to be constructed along radically different lines . By now , however , protein subunits were easy to imagine in large numbers . Just the oppo- site was true of RNA . Division of the RNA compo ...
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