Because Quote by Severo Ochoa

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

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

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

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although…

— Francis Crick

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

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

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

— Frederick Sanger

If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as…

— Anonymous

I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to…

— Andrew H. Knoll

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

— Isaac Asimov

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show…

— Francis Crick

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