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So over our gooseberry pie we looked at the pros and cons of one , two , three , and four chains , quickly dismissing one- chain helices as incompatible with the evidence in our hands . As to the forces that held the chains together ...
So over our gooseberry pie we looked at the pros and cons of one , two , three , and four chains , quickly dismissing one- chain helices as incompatible with the evidence in our hands . As to the forces that held the chains together ...
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he quickly lost heart when it became apparent that I was the only one joining the conversation . Moreover , by this time neither of us really wanted to look at our model . All its glamor had vanished , and the crudely improvised ...
he quickly lost heart when it became apparent that I was the only one joining the conversation . Moreover , by this time neither of us really wanted to look at our model . All its glamor had vanished , and the crudely improvised ...
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His quickly pushing the bases together in a number of different ways did not reveal any other way to satisfy Chargaff's rules . A few min- utes later he spotted the fact that the two glycosidic bonds ( joining base and sugar ) of each ...
His quickly pushing the bases together in a number of different ways did not reveal any other way to satisfy Chargaff's rules . A few min- utes later he spotted the fact that the two glycosidic bonds ( joining base and sugar ) of each ...
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