 | 356 pages
...play its part as the material basis of inheritance. With charming restraint Watson and Crick wrote: 'It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. ' That is to say, if we were to separate the two chains of a DNA molecule, by rupturing the hydrogen... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - Social Science - 1973 - 639 pages
...masterstroke of calculated understatement wrought by Francis Crick: "It has not escaped our notice that the pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." The stories detailed in The Double Helix have evidently gone far to dispel a popular mythology about... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics - Astronautics - 1974 - 894 pages
...the structure itself the only feature of the paper which has excited comment was the short sentence: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." This has been described 1 Crick, FHC, and Watson, JD, Proc. R. Soc., A223, 80-86 (1854). 29 as "coy,"... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics Committee - 1974 - 234 pages
...which rests mainly though not entirely on published experimental data and stereocheniical arguments. It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. Full details of the structure, including the conditions assumed in building it, together with a set... | |
 | Anne Sayre - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 226 pages
...that. As they put it, in the most delightful throwaway line ever incorporated into a scientific paper, "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." n Their structure explained. There was, of course, no need for them to hesitate about publishing this... | |
 | Ann E. Kammer - Science - 1979 - 588 pages
...that. As they put it, in the most delightful throwaway line ever incorporated into a scientific paper, "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." (35) Their structure explained . There was, of course, no need for them to hesitate about publishing... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - Science - 1982 - 996 pages
...at once clear to Watson and Crick, as they said (rather coyly) in their original paper (1953a: 737): "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." As they outline in a subsequent publication, an 824 untwisting of the helix together with the breaking... | |
 | Alexander Rosenberg - Science - 1985 - 300 pages
...afterthought at the very end of the paper they wrote: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific base pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." (Watson and Crick, 1953:737). Afterthought or not, Watson and Crick's postulation soon led to much... | |
 | A. Rupert Hall, B. A. Bembridge - History - 1986 - 506 pages
...this proposition was accepted. In 1953, Watson and Crick proposed a structure for DNA. They concluded 'it has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing...possible copying mechanism for the genetic material'. It was subsequently shown that the synthesis of cytoplasmic proteins was determined by nuclear DNA... | |
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. 
