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...PART, is even more generously endowed???with 1,000 times as much DNA as one E. coli in each of his reproductive cells. Even so, the cells of such relatively primitive animals as salamanders, lungfish and even certain one-celled algae contain far more DNA than man's. Does this mean that such lowly beasts have a richer genetic capacity than man? The Carnegie Institution's Roy Britten and David Kohne, after much painstaking investigation, may have found the answer to that embarrassing question. A few years ago they discovered that in the DNA of higher organisms many genes seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CELL: Unraveling the Double Helix and the Secret of Life | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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