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Six weeks of listening to Francis had made me realize that the crux of the matter was whether Rosy's new X - ray pictures would lend any support for a helical DNA structure . The really relevant experimental details were those which ...
Six weeks of listening to Francis had made me realize that the crux of the matter was whether Rosy's new X - ray pictures would lend any support for a helical DNA structure . The really relevant experimental details were those which ...
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Realizing that this was not the moment for science , he slowly retreated , ask- ing Griffith to tell him again the pairs produced by his calculations . ... But on second thought he realized that Griffith's interests were else- where .
Realizing that this was not the moment for science , he slowly retreated , ask- ing Griffith to tell him again the pairs produced by his calculations . ... But on second thought he realized that Griffith's interests were else- where .
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Then I realized that the 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 .
Then I realized that the 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 .
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