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GENETIC MATERIAL:
•Replication
•Storage of information
•Expression of information
•Variation by mutation
•Pre-Mendelian ideas on heredity
1859 Charles Darwin Published The Origin of Species.
• Never won the acceptance and esteem of his colleagues and died in
poverty and obscurity.
• The ratio [C+G] / [A+T] was typically less than unity (that is,
[C+G] is less abundant).
Franklin's X-Ray Crystallography Experiments (1950s)
•Some RNAs are known with catalytic activity and are called ribozymes