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Nature 227, 561-563 (8 August 1970) | doi:10.1038/227561a0; Received 8 July 1970

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

FRANCIS CRICK

  1. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH
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The central dogma of molecular biology deals with the detailed residue-by-residue transfer of sequential information. It states that such information cannot be transferred from protein to either protein or nucleic acid.