Being Quote by Richard J. Roberts

The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose…

— Erwin Chargaff

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

— Severo Ochoa

The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.

— Emil Theodor Kocher

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells…

— Lewis Thomas

“It was the magnesium. The addition of the ion was critical: with the solution supplemented with magnesium, the ribosome remained glued together, and Brenner…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

“The chemicals along a strand of DNA are arranged so that the molecule can make a copy of itself. Things being the way they…

— Bill Nye

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material…

— Richard J. Roberts

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

“Second, the production of RNA Messages was coordinately regulated. When the sugar source was switched to lactose, the bacteria turned on an entire module…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development…

— C. D. Darlington