What Mad Pursuit

• Utgivningsdatum: 1990-07-10
• Mått: 164 x 216 x 13 mm
• Vikt: 254 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 208
• Förlag: Basic Books
• ISBN: 9780465091386

• Biovetenskap
• Självbiografier och Memoarer
• Naturvetenskap:allmänt

1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

1. 5/5 Robert B 2016-04-26

   A highly personal, but very fair, account of two stories, the discovery of the DNA double helix and the elucidation of the genetic code.
   
   There were a few small errors, for example: when he corrects the reader's impression that cyanobacter is an algae by saying that it is a bacterium: that itself is wrong. It is an archaea. But he can be excused, archaea were hardly known at the time, thier existence was demonstrated later by Woese.
   
   When he says that selecting, without ordering, "three nucleotide types from four" can be done in 20 ways, that is wrong. The correct answer is of course 4 ( 4!/3!1! in statistical language). If the ordering is considered the answer is 64.