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Today I'm going to talk a little about one of the most famous pairs in the biological sciences. James D. Watson and Francis Crick uncovered the stucture of the DNA molecule, revolutionating the way most biologists think since then. It was olny after this breakthroug that all the geneticists and evolutionists would be able to understand live beings in a celular/molecular way. Their results were published in a 1953 Nature edition. (these articles can be found here for consult: http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/archive.html). It is said by the legend that has they entered Eagle pub in Cambridge, Crick announced, "We have found the secret of life!".
Furthermore, it was only after this huge foundation was built that, in 1958, Francis Crick was able to determin what was called "The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology".
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Watson and Crick
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Filipe Louro
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it kills me that these two arent household names. maybe its me since its what i study, but cmon