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 of the type discussed here.
FRANCIS CRICKA 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 of the type discussed here.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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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 viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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