The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNASince its publication in 1968, The Double Helix has given countless readers a rare and exciting look at one highly significant piece of scientific research-Watson and Crick's race to discover the molecular structure of DNA. |
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Page 76
... existed that I might be misleading Francis by an order - of - magnitude difference . The wrong person had been sent to hear Rosy . If Francis had gone along , no such ambiguity would have existed . It was the penalty for being ...
... existed that I might be misleading Francis by an order - of - magnitude difference . The wrong person had been sent to hear Rosy . If Francis had gone along , no such ambiguity would have existed . It was the penalty for being ...
Page 101
... existed a forgotten clue to DNA . The book I poked open the most was Francis ' copy of The Nature of the Chemical Bond Increasingly often , when Francis needed it to look up a crucial bond length , it would turn up on the quarter bench ...
... existed a forgotten clue to DNA . The book I poked open the most was Francis ' copy of The Nature of the Chemical Bond Increasingly often , when Francis needed it to look up a crucial bond length , it would turn up on the quarter bench ...
Page 129
... existed for why only one side would be chosen . And there was no reason for ruling out the idea that Chargaff's regularities had their origin in the ge- netic code : In some way specific groups of nucleotides must code for specific ...
... existed for why only one side would be chosen . And there was no reason for ruling out the idea that Chargaff's regularities had their origin in the ge- netic code : In some way specific groups of nucleotides must code for specific ...
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