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  • Excited Watson On Dna Research
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    James Watson's The Double Helix: A Review review of Watson, James D. The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum, 1968. James Watson's account of the events that led to the discovery of the structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a very witty narrative, and shines light on the nature of scientists. Watson describes the many key events that led to the eventual discovery of the structure of DNA in a scientific manner, while including many experiences in his life that happened at the same time whic...
  • Catalytic Sites Of Multi Domain Proteins
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    Describe the Nature, Structure, and Function of Domains in Proteins Domains " Within a single subunit [polypeptide chain], contiguous portions of the polypeptide chain frequently fold into compact, local semi-independent units called domains. ' - Richardson, 1981 In the hierarchical organisation of proteins, domains are found at the highest level of tertiary structure. Since the term was first used by Wetlaufer (1973) a number of definitions exist reflecting author bias, however all of the defin...
  • Crystals To Diffract X Rays
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    Who is Rosalind Franklin Born on July 25, 1920 in London, England, Rosalind Elise Franklin was a catalyst to many other scientists in the field of genetics. Using coal and carbon as subjects, Franklin discovered the double helix of DNA, the shape that two linear strands of DNA assume when bonded together. In 1945, Franklin received her Ph. D in physical chemistry from Cambridge University. The next year she went to Paris and worked in the Laboratoire Central des Services Chi miques de LEt at unt...
  • Curious Dr James Watson
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    Dr. James Watson, PhD The following is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. James Watson that took place at the Understanding What You Really Are Made of conference at the University of Lone Oak in 1994. Dr. James Watson co-discovered the structure of DNA with Dr. Francis Crick. Excerpted from the conference transcripts with permission of the University of Lone Oak. Interviewer: Please give us a few facts about your personal history, your life growing up before we begin the questions so we may ...
  • Structure Of Dna
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    In the autumn of 1951, James Watson (left) and Francis Crick (right) started work on unravelling the structure of DNA. It was known at the time that DNA was present in the nucleus of every living cell, and that it had something to do with heredity, but without a knowledge of its structure little more could be understood about how it actually worked. They approached the problem with the same methodology that had been pioneered by Linus Pauling, who after years of exhaustive study had earlier disc...
  • Discovery Of The Structure Of Dna
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    Over 17 million people are infected with AIDS in just Botswana, Africa itself and over a few million people are infected with some sort of cancer. As of March, 2003 no one has found a curer or even a vaccine to control the havoc these disastourous diseases lay upon people. Is it even possible to accomplish such a feat? If we can get a man on the moon, which is literally out of this world, how hard could it be to cure a couple of diseases? Apparently it's impossible to do so; or is it? Nancy Gibb...

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