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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... nucleotides were found in DNA . In this sense , DNA was not a regular molecule but a highly irregular one . The four nucleotides were not , how- ever , completely different , for each contained the same sugar and phosphate components ...
... nucleotides were found in DNA . In this sense , DNA was not a regular molecule but a highly irregular one . The four nucleotides were not , how- ever , completely different , for each contained the same sugar and phosphate components ...
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... nucleotide sugar phos phate bose sugar phos- phate base sugar phos- phate A short section of DNA as envisioned by Alexander Todd's research group in 1951. They thought that all the internucleotide links were phosphodiester bonds joining ...
... nucleotide sugar phos phate bose sugar phos- phate base sugar phos- phate A short section of DNA as envisioned by Alexander Todd's research group in 1951. They thought that all the internucleotide links were phosphodiester bonds joining ...
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... nucleotides in length . Though in nature DNA chains are very long , there was no reason to put together anything massive . As long as we could be sure it was a helix , the assign- ment of the positions for only a couple of nucleotides ...
... nucleotides in length . Though in nature DNA chains are very long , there was no reason to put together anything massive . As long as we could be sure it was a helix , the assign- ment of the positions for only a couple of nucleotides ...
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