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...Watson, professor of Biology, Francis H. C. Crick, visiting professor of Biophysics, will share the $10,000 Corporation Award for 1961, to represented in New York Wednesday, 18. The two biologists are being for determining the structure of the fundamental hereditary...
Actually this description is oversimplified. Crick said, for he feels that more than one group of three bases is necessary to determine an amino acid. Thus while there are only 20 amino acids, there may be more than 50 "sense" triplet groups of bases, groups which influence amino-acid formation...
Most geneticists hold this view, Crick stated, but many biochemists disagree, claiming that there are fewer than 30 "sense" triplet groups...
...Crick's experiments involved the nucleic acid of bacteriophage, cells which destroy bacteria. Each "phage" will only lyse specific bacteria. Changes in genetic structure in the phage can therefore be observed in the failure of the phage to exist on its specific bacteria...
...beginning of his lecture Crick pointed out that geneticists in the past had been extremely reluctant to give up mistaken ideas. "I've often wondered what would happen," he said, "if the gene turned out to be polysaccharide...