How is the base sequence, d... by Francis Crick, an English Scientist

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“How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.”

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Francis Crick

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Name: Francis Crick

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Jun 8, 1916

Date of Death: Jul 28, 2004

Profession: Scientist

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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 own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

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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 molecule.

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If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

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Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

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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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