Nobel laureates Francis Crick and James Watson on DNA (nature.com), Quote of the Day, 2005-06-06

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Monday 06 Jun 2005

We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid ( D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.

...It has not escaped our attention that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a copying mechanism for the genetic material.

-- Francis Crick and James Watson
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