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Matthew Cobb

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[Wikipedia] Matthew John Cobb is a British zoologist and Emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He is known for his popular science books The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth; Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack

Quotes by Matthew Cobb

“the transforming principle could not be made of DNA because nucleic acids were all alike. As”

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“DNA composition was constant in all tissues of a given species, but each species had its own profile.”

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“The genetic code is a product of biology and is messy, illogical and inelegant. It is highly redundant, but to bewilderingly varied…

Programming

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“Wiener and Rosenblueth showed that purposeful, goal-directed behaviour can be seen in organisms and machines, and that it operates through what is…

Computers

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“As Jacob put it in 1977, natural selection does not design, it tinkers with what is available.”

Natural selection

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“Genes were no longer mysterious embodiments of specificity, they were information – a code – that could be transmitted (another word from…

Programming

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“In fact they are historical, carrying the baggage of their evolutionary past, and have not been designed at all. They are often…

Time

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“In the discussion, Gulland was asked about the possibility that a DNA molecule might be a helix, held together by the presence…

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“By the end of the 1940s, support for the hypothesis that DNA had a fundamental role in heredity had grown much stronger.”

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“In typically generous fashion, Crick was offering Nirenberg the opportunity to step into history as the man who had cracked the genetic…

History

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“Every result converged on the same conclusion: the transforming principle was composed of DNA. The discussion section of the article outlined the…

Change

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“Avery had described one of the most momentous discoveries in the history of science, and no one could think of anything to…

History

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“By the end of the 1940s, it was widely known that the levels of protein in the transforming principle were effectively zero.”

Change

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“If the adaptor hypothesis were true (and it was), this meant that the role of DNA and RNA would be reduced to…

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“Part of the problem was that no one knew exactly how a cell took a nucleic acid sequence and turned it into…

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