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Letter from Francis Crick to Andre Lwoff, Institut Pasteur (France)

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Lwoff, Andre, 1902-
Publication:
Produced: 25 September 1957
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Genetic Code
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
In this letter Crick responded to Andre Lwoff's concern that the two chains of the double helix of DNA would appear to code for different proteins because being complementary, the two chains had a different base sequence. Both Crick and Lwoff thought this would be unlikely, but could not explain how such a conclusion might be avoided.
Copyright:
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Extent:
2 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X12 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBBX
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X12
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)