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1.万物简史 第594期:生命的物质(20)
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Most of the time our DNA replicates with dutiful accuracy, but just occasionally about one time in a million a letter gets into the wrong place. This ...
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2.万物简史 第593期:生命的物质(19)
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The shape of a DNA molecule, as everyone knows, is rather like a spiral staircase or twisted rope ladder: the famous double helix. The uprights of thi...
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3.万物简史 第592期:生命的物质(18)
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Ninety-seven percent of your DNA consists of nothing but long stretches of meaningless garble junk, or non-coding DNA, as biochemists prefer to put it...
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4.万物简史 第591期:生命的物质(17)
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Rosalind Franklin did not share in the Nobel Prize. She died of ovarian cancer at the age of just thirty-seven in 1958, four years before the award wa...
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5.万物简史 第590期:生命的物质(16)
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Still facing the possibility of being trumped at any moment, Watson and Crick applied themselves feverishly to the problem. It was known that DNA had ...
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6.万物简史 第589期:生命的物质(15)
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To Wilkins's presumed dismay and embarrassment, in the summer of 1952 she posted a mock notice around the King's physics department that said: It is w...
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7.万物简史 第588期:生命的物质(14)
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If Franklin was not warmly forthcoming with her findings, she cannot be altogether blamed. Female academics at King's in the 1950s were treated with a...
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8.万物简史 第587期:生命的物质(13)
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The New Zealand-born Wilkins was a retiring figure, almost to the point of invisibility. A 1998 PBS documentary on the discovery of the structure of D...
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9.万物简史 第586期:生命的物质(12)
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Crick, twelve years older and still without a doctorate, was less memorably hirsute and slightly more tweedy. In Watson's account he is presented as b...
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10.万物简史 第585期:生命的物质(11)
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In an exceedingly distinguished career, he would win two Nobel Prizes (for chemistry in 1954 and peace in 1962), but with DNA he became convinced that...