| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 503 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Replication Problem -- Meselson and Stahl -- Twists and Turns -- Crossing Fields: Chemical Bonds to Biological Mutants -- Dense Solutions -- The Big Machine -- Working at High Speed -- The Unseen Band -- One Discovery, Three Stories -- An Extremely Beautiful Experiment -- Centrifugal Forces -- The Subunits of Semiconservative Replication -- Images of an Experiment -- Afterword -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
In 1957 Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a 'most beautiful' experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research - its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous windfalls, as well as its frustrations, unexpected diversions away from original plans, and chronic uncertainty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-496) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Meselson, Matthew.
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Stahl, Franklin W.
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| SUBJECT |
Meselson, Matthew fast |
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Stahl, Franklin W. fast |
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Meselson, Matthew Stanley 1930- gnd |
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Stahl, Franklin William 1929- gnd |
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Meselson, Matthew Stanley. swd |
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Stahl, Franklin William. swd |
| Subject |
DNA replication -- Experiments -- History
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Molecular biology -- Experiments -- History
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DNA replication.
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DNA Replication
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Molecular Biology -- history
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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DNA replication
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Molecular biology -- Experiments
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Replikation
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Meselson-Stahl-Experiment
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DNA.
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Replicatie (biochemie)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300129663 |
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0300129661 |
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1281730459 |
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9781281730459 |
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