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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... protein chemist and a nucleic - acid chemist . Though only about one half the mass of a bacterial virus was DNA ( the other half being protein ) , Avery's experiment made it smell like the essential genetic material . So , working out ...
... protein chemist and a nucleic - acid chemist . Though only about one half the mass of a bacterial virus was DNA ( the other half being protein ) , Avery's experiment made it smell like the essential genetic material . So , working out ...
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... protein and RNA compo- nents were likely to be constructed along radically different lines . By now , however , protein subunits were easy to imagine in large numbers . Just the oppo- site was true of RNA . Division of the RNA compo ...
... protein and RNA compo- nents were likely to be constructed along radically different lines . By now , however , protein subunits were easy to imagine in large numbers . Just the oppo- site was true of RNA . Division of the RNA compo ...
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... protein synthesis . Virtually all the evidence then available made me believe that DNA was the template upon which RNA chains were made . In turn ... Protein Hypothetical Scheme Metaplese tionship between Nucleic Acids and Proteins 153.
... protein synthesis . Virtually all the evidence then available made me believe that DNA was the template upon which RNA chains were made . In turn ... Protein Hypothetical Scheme Metaplese tionship between Nucleic Acids and Proteins 153.
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