WATSON-CRICK MODEL


Meaning of WATSON-CRICK MODEL in English

[Watson-Crick model] n [J. D. Watson & F. H. C. Crick] (1958): a model of DNA structure in which the molecule is a cross-linked double-stranded helix, each strand is composed of alternating links of phosphate and deoxyribose, and the strands are cross-linked by pairs of purine and pyrimidine bases projecting inward from the deoxyribose sugars and joined by hydrogen bonds with adenine paired with thymine and with cytosine paired with guanine--compare double helix

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