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Page 144
In fact , when I was away in the Alps he had spent a week trying to prove
experimentally that in water solutions there were attractive forces between
adenine and thymine , and between guanine and cytosine . But his efforts had
yielded nothing ...
In fact , when I was away in the Alps he had spent a week trying to prove
experimentally that in water solutions there were attractive forces between
adenine and thymine , and between guanine and cytosine . But his efforts had
yielded nothing ...
Page 190
My immediate retort that several other texts also pictured guanine and thymine in
the enol form cut no ice with Jerry . Happily he let out that for years organic
chemists had been arbitrarily favoring particular tautomeric forms over their ...
My immediate retort that several other texts also pictured guanine and thymine in
the enol form cut no ice with Jerry . Happily he let out that for years organic
chemists had been arbitrarily favoring particular tautomeric forms over their ...
Page 195
sugar sugar adenine thymine sugar sugar o su guanine cytosine The adenine -
thymine and guanine - cytosine base pairs used to construct the double helix (
hydrogen bonds are dotted ) . The formation of a third hydrogen bond between ...
sugar sugar adenine thymine sugar sugar o su guanine cytosine The adenine -
thymine and guanine - cytosine base pairs used to construct the double helix (
hydrogen bonds are dotted ) . The formation of a third hydrogen bond between ...
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