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Meselson, Stahl, and the replication of DNA : a history of "the most beautiful experiment in biology" /
In 1957 Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a 'most beautiful' experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1957 Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a 'most beautiful' experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research - its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous windfalls, as well as its frustrations, unexpected diversions away from original plans, and chronic uncertainty. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 503 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-496) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300129663 0300129661 1281730459 9781281730459 |