Letter from Francis Crick to Robert L. Sinsheimer
- Contributor(s):
- Sinsheimer, Robert The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Publication:
- Produced: 9 October 1961
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Genetic Code
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- In this letter Crick refers to genetic experiments undertaken with Leslie Barnett, Sydney Brenner, and Richard Watts-Tobin on acridine mutants, which indicated that the genetic code was a triplet code. Compelling evidence that poly-U (a synthetic form of RNA consisting of bases of a single type, uracil) coded for the amino acid phenylalanine was first presented by the American biochemist Marshall Nirenberg in the summer of 1961.
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- Extent:
- 1 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X24 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBCQ
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X24
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)