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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.
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CRICK, F. Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. Nature 227, 561–563 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227561a0
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