1 Behind this terse proclamation, there has been an already well-formed idea of semiconservative mode of replication. On Mar, 19, 1953, just a day or two before the submission of the paper to Nature,1 Crick described Watson’s and his model of DNA in a seven-page letter to his 12-...
Would DNA replication be much more error prone if DNA polymerases could polymerize two nucleotide triphosphates to start a new DNA strand? During DNA replication, one of the new strands of DNA is synthesized continuously, while the other is synthesized as a number...