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The DNA Story - 1973

Francis CrickFrancis Crick
Author: Francis Crick
Length: 0:40


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Crick: I wasn't so sure, I think, at that time, as to whether DNA or protein was the genetic material. Of course I knew about Avery's experiments, and they were very suggestive, but you could argue that they weren't watertight. I knew Maurice Wilkins, I'd known him before I went to the Cavendish, and he was working on DNA and I'd gone to talk to him, but I didn't actually myself work on it, mainly because at the Cavendish they were working on protein structures. So I learnt about polypeptide chains, x-ray diffraction, and things of that sort, and essentially continued to be interested in DNA rather than doing any experiments or calculations.


 
   



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