The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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Page 88
... quickly dismissing one- chain helices as incompatible with the evidence in our hands . As to the forces that held the chains together , the best guess seemed to be salt bridges in which diva- lent cations like Mg ++ held together two or ...
... quickly dismissing one- chain helices as incompatible with the evidence in our hands . As to the forces that held the chains together , the best guess seemed to be salt bridges in which diva- lent cations like Mg ++ held together two or ...
Page 96
... 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 phosphorus ...
... 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 phosphorus ...
Page 197
... 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 base ...
... 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 base ...
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