Auteur: Holmes Frederic Lawrence Holmes

In 1957 two young scientists, 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 …

This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the r II region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer’s accomplis …