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 molecules . Francis , however , did not worry about these skeptics . Many were cantankerous fools who unfailingly backed the wrong horses . One could not be a success- ful scientist without realizing that , in contrast to the ...
... protein molecules . Francis , however , did not worry about these skeptics . Many were cantankerous fools who unfailingly backed the wrong horses . One could not be a success- ful scientist without realizing that , in contrast to the ...
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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 ...
Page 153
... protein . The arrows did not signify chemical transformations , but instead expressed the transfer of genetic information from the sequences of nucleotides in DNA molecules to the sequences of amino acids in proteins . Though I fell ...
... protein . The arrows did not signify chemical transformations , but instead expressed the transfer of genetic information from the sequences of nucleotides in DNA molecules to the sequences of amino acids in proteins . Though I fell ...
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