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

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)
Lwoff, Andre, 1902-
Publication:
Produced: 13 September 1957
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Genetic Code
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
In this letter Lwoff raised the problem that the two chains of the double helix had a different base sequence because they were complementary (and not identical), which meant that if each chain individually coded for proteins, the proteins would be different from one another.
Copyright:
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Extent:
2 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X11 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBBW
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X11
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)