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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Francis Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 with James Watson. He, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information... Read full biography of Francis Crick → 1 2 Ctrl → It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the... → 0 We've discovered the secret of life. 0 The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more... → 0 The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets... → 0 This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together... → 0 A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations... → 0 It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small... → 0 Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my... → 0 It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid... → 0 A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair... → 0 It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less... → 0 For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too... → 0 If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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