In addition to discussing the use of artificial strands of RNA (such as GCGC) as a means for uncovering the genetic code, Crick here conveyed his recent insight that ribosomal RNA was not the messenger RNA (which Crick here called genetic RNA), but that mRNA was a separate form of RNA which had eluded detection because it turned over (formed, decomposed, and formed again) rapidly as it carried parts of the genetic message from the DNA in the nucleus of the cell to the ribosomes in the cytoplasm.
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2 (234,480 Bytes)
Date:
1960-05-10 (May 10, 1960)
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Recipient:
Kornberg, Arthur
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
