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Nucleic Acids and Proteins

The nucleic acid molecules inherited by the living cell bear the plan of all the cell's protein molecules. It now appears that another kind of nucleic acid plays a key role in translating the plan into protein

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 201 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Nucleic Acids and Proteins” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 6 (), p. 55
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1259-55