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Letter from John Burton Sanderson Haldane to Francis Crick
Letter from John Burton Sanderson Haldane to Francis Crick
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Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964 The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
In this letter, Haldane, the population geneticist, evolutionary biologist, popularizer of science, and free-thinking intellectual, raised astute questions about the effect of gene mutation on protein synthesis and the function of nonsense triplets, triplets of nucleotides that do not code for proteins.
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