Letter from John Burton Sanderson Haldane to Francis Crick
Description:
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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1 (96,795 Bytes)
Date:
1959-05-06 (May 6, 1959)
Creator:
Haldane, John Burton Sanderson
Recipient:
Crick, Francis
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
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