In response to DNA damage or DNA replication stress cells activate the "DNA structure" checkpoints.
The elegance with which the DNA structure merged form and function seemed to guarantee its truth.
"The DNA structure is one of those turning points," he says.
If you reject something you grew up with, does that mean that you have the DNA structure of a traitor?
Dr. Stent's work showed how the decay caused a break in the DNA structure of the bacteriophage.
The 55-minute presentation was divided into fourteen "modules," including "Overview of DNA Structure," "Watson and Crick," "X-Ray Crystallography" and "Nature of a Polynucleotide".
Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958, four years before the Nobel prize was awarded to Watson, Crick and Wilkins for their work on DNA structure.
As for the scientific story, his lucidity never fails him, even when he's trudging through old territory, as with familiar details of DNA structure.
"James Watson is one of the greatest biologists in the history of mankind and his award for the discovery of DNA structure must belong to him," he added.
This is now known down to the last atom, and this achievement should rank with Watson and Crick's elucidation of the DNA structure.
The first Watson-Crick attempt to build a model of the DNA structure was a disaster.
