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Nucleic acids are the main information-carrying molecules of the cell, and, by directing the process of protein synthesis, they determine the inherited characteristics of every living thing. The two main classes of nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). -- Richard J. Roberts
Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. -- Alfred Hershey
In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids. -- Frederick Sanger
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters. -- Severo Ochoa
Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well. -- Alfred Hershey
It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule. -- Francis Crick
How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons. -- Francis Crick
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material. -- Francis Crick
I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to grow and reproduce. It's that growth and reproduction, the ability to make more of yourself, that's important. -- Andrew H. Knoll
All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary -- Isaac Asimov
We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest. -- Rosalind Franklin
The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside. -- Rosalind Franklin

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