Word: clues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using this clue as their Rosetta stone, Nirenberg and other researchers eventually found one or more three-letter code words, or codons, that could call up every single amino acid?plus other words that acted as punctuation, marking the start or completion of a message ordering the production of a protein. Even more remarkable, they learned that the code was universal: the same four letters, taken three at a time to form a single genetic word, code the same amino acids in all living things. Thus by the mid-1960s, scientists finally understood how DNA passes on genetic information with...
...flowed in one direction: from DNA to RNA to protein. To the surprise of many molecular biologists, however, it has recently been shown that part of the process can sometimes be reversed. This finding, in the opinion of molecular biologists like Columbia's Sol Spiegelman, may offer an important clue to the workings of cancer cells (see box, page...
...history of Western art with a landscape in the background. Moreover, says Christie's, "it is the first portrait in European history to depict the sitter engaged in a normal everyday activity -in this case, reading a missive." The painted lettering is illegible and thus gives no clue to the man's identity, but the scar is identical to that shown on other known portraits of Philip...
...special edition of the CRIMSON which carried the story of that 1924 tribute to Eliot had a large reproduction of a full-face portrait of the former President on the cover. Looking at the picture closely, it gives no clue that Eliot did not have an immaculate complexion. I have heard that he looked men straight in the eye, but did not like to be photographed...
...then trading over the counter at between 15 and 16. Yet the Strake school, which had previously been involved in business dealings with the insurance company and the bank, bought large blocks of the politicians' stock at between 20 and 26. Why?' The SEC documents offer no clue. The Rev. Michael Kennelly, then Strake's president, said that he had not understood the manipulations, but was in the habit of following Sharp's advice. The Rev. Michael Alchediak, Kennelly's successor, said: "We, by our background and whole formation, have tended to be trusting...