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

“Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell. This growth is unleashed by mutations—changes in DNA…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“That this seemingly simple mechanism—cell growth without barriers—can lie at the heart of this grotesque and multifaceted illness is a testament to the unfathomable…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

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

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

— Frederick Sanger

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at…

— Anonymous

We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from…

— Carl Sagan

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

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

— Matthew Cobb