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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holmes, Frederic Lawrence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Replication Problem
  • Meselson and Stahl
  • Twists and Turns
  • Crossing Fields: Chemical Bonds to Biological Mutants
  • Dense Solutions
  • The Big Machine
  • Working at High Speed
  • The Unseen Band
  • One Discovery, Three Stories
  • An Extremely Beautiful Experiment
  • Centrifugal Forces
  • The Subunits of Semiconservative Replication
  • Images of an Experiment
  • Afterword
  • Abbreviations Used in Notes
  • Notes
  • Index