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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... molecule , the happier Bragg be- came when a new method allowed its elucidation . Thus in the immediate postwar years he was especially keen about the possibility of solving the structures of proteins , the most complicated of all molecules ...
... molecule , the happier Bragg be- came when a new method allowed its elucidation . Thus in the immediate postwar years he was especially keen about the possibility of solving the structures of proteins , the most complicated of all molecules ...
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... molecular models would be necessary to make us absolutely sure we had the right answer . Then it would be obvious to the world that Pauling was not the only one capable of true insight into how biologi- cal molecules were constructed ...
... molecular models would be necessary to make us absolutely sure we had the right answer . Then it would be obvious to the world that Pauling was not the only one capable of true insight into how biologi- cal molecules were constructed ...
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... molecules was very similar to the number of thymine ( T ) molecules , while the number of guanine ( G ) molecules was very close to the number of cytosine ( C ) molecules . More- over , the proportion of adenine and thymine groups varied ...
... molecules was very similar to the number of thymine ( T ) molecules , while the number of guanine ( G ) molecules was very close to the number of cytosine ( C ) molecules . More- over , the proportion of adenine and thymine groups varied ...
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