Wat|son-Crick

Wat|son-Crick
Wat|son-Crick «WOT suhn KRIHK», adjective.
of or having to do with various genetic concepts and hypotheses, such as the double helix and the central dogma, postulated by the American biologist James D. Watson (born 1928) and the English biologist Francis H. C. Crick (born 1916): »

... the so-called Watson-Crick Theory, which holds that all genetic traits are basically derived from the structure of a kind of master molecule in the chromosomes called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA (New York Times).


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