Acid Quote by Francis Crick

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a…

— Francis Crick

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two…

— Francis Crick

Nucleic acids are the main information-carrying molecules of the cell, and, by directing the process of protein synthesis, they determine the inherited characteristics of…

— Richard J. Roberts

The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes…

— Linus Pauling

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

— Severo Ochoa

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up…

— Michael Specter

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic…

— Rosalind Franklin

“With DNA as with words, the sequence carries the meaning. Dissolve DNA into its constituent bases, and it turns into a primordial four-letter alphabet…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Although we fully understand the genetic code-i.e., how the information in a single gene is used to build a protein-we comprehend virtually nothing of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the…

— Francis Crick

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

— Michael Behe

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

— Matthew Cobb