James Watson, “The Double Helix”, 1968.

James Watson at age 23 and Francis Crick age 32, discovered the double helical structure of the DNA. Crick postulated the “Central Dogma of Molecular Biology”. This postulate is that information flows from nucleic acid to amino acid (and never the reverse direction). This is the central idea of the genetic code. This book by … Continue reading James Watson, “The Double Helix”, 1968.