Hermann Staudinger, “Macromolecular Chemistry”, NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE, 11 December 1953 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Emile Zuckerkandl & Linus Pauling, “Molecules as Documents of Evolutionary History”, Journal of Theoretical Biology”, year 1965, volume 8, pages 357-366.
COMMENTS.
In 1965 when this paper was published it was groundbreaking, as it defines as new class of molecules called “semantides”.
Semantides are polynucleotides & polypeptides. Semantides are the molecules of mutational change. Semantide today is reduced to simply saying DNA (shown ABOVE).
Here I presented: Emile Zuckerkandl & Linus Pauling, “Molecules as Documents of Evolutionary History”, Journal of Theoretical Biology”, year 1965, volume 8, pages 357-366.
Victor McKusick, “Mendelian Inheritance in Man”, 1966, was the topic of an earlier blog post.
