Molecular Biology of the Gene, Volume 10

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W. A. Benjamin, 1976 - Science - 739 pages
The mendelian view of the world; Cells o bey the laws of chemistry; A chemist's look at the bacterial cell; The importance of weak chemical interactions; coupled reactions and group transfers; The concept of template surfaces; The arrangement of genes on chromosomes; Gene structure and function; The repplication of DNA; The transcription of RNA UPON DNA templates; Involvement of RNA in protein synthesis; The genetic code; Regulation; of protein synthesis and function; The replication of viruses; The essence of being eucaryotic; Embrylogy at the molecular level; The control of cell proliferation; The problem of antibody synthesis; The viral origins of cancer.

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The Cell Theory
2
Mendelian Laws
8
Chromosomal Determination of
14
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James Dewey Watson James D. Watson was born on April 6, 1928. Watson was an extremely industrious student and entered the University of Chicago when he was only 15. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology four years later, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in the same subject at Indiana University. He was performing research at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, when he first learned of the biomolecular research at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University in England. Watson joined Francis Crick in this work in 1951. At the age of 25, he and colleague Crick discovered the structure of DNA, the double helix. Watson went on to become a Senior Research Fellow in Biology at the California Institute of Technology, before returning to Cambridge in 1955. The following year he moved to Harvard University, where he became Professor of Biology, a post he held until 1976. Watson and Crick won the 1962 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nuclear acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. In 1968, Watson published his account of the DNA discovery, "The Double Helix." The book became an international best-seller. Watson became the Director and later President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 1988 he served as Director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, a massive project to decipher the entire genetic code of the human species. Watson has received many awards and medals for his work, along with the Nobel Prize, he has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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