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... pyrimidine bases were on hand . Rapid improvisation would be necessary since there was no din base O sugar phosphate A schematic view of a nucleotide , showing that the plane of the base is almost perpendicular to the plane in which ...
... pyrimidine bases were on hand . Rapid improvisation would be necessary since there was no din base O sugar phosphate A schematic view of a nucleotide , showing that the plane of the base is almost perpendicular to the plane in which ...
Page 175
... pyrimidine bases were stacked on top of each other in a direction per- pendicular to the helical axis . In addition we could feel sure from both electron - microscope and X - ray evi- dence that the helix diameter was about 20 Ċ ...
... pyrimidine bases were stacked on top of each other in a direction per- pendicular to the helical axis . In addition we could feel sure from both electron - microscope and X - ray evi- dence that the helix diameter was about 20 Ċ ...
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... pyrimidine residues . Two irregular se- quences of bases could be regularly packed in the center of a helix if a purine always hydrogen - bonded to a pyrimidine . Furthermore , the hydrogen - bonding requirement meant that adenine would ...
... pyrimidine residues . Two irregular se- quences of bases could be regularly packed in the center of a helix if a purine always hydrogen - bonded to a pyrimidine . Furthermore , the hydrogen - bonding requirement meant that adenine would ...
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