Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
Article
Formal Antecedent
Foundations and Logic
Citation
James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick. (1953). Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. Nature. 171. pp. 737–738.
Why this reference is included
Watson and Crick’s 1953 Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, published in Nature, is one of the program’s working technical references. Cited across Book IV (Categorical Microcosm), Part 6, Chapter Biochemistry and Photochemistry; Book VI (Categorical Life), Part 0, Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails — the central framing is “The two strands of the DNA double helix are held together by specific hydrogen bonds between complementary bases: [ A ≡ T (2 H-bonds), G ≡ C (3 H-bonds)”.
Cited in
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Book IV — Categorical Microcosm Part 6Chapter Biochemistry and Photochemistry
The two strands of the DNA double helix are held together by specific hydrogen bonds between complementary bases: \[ A ≡ T (2 H-bonds), G ≡ C (3 H-bonds)
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 0Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails
This prediction, nine years before Watson and Crick's double helix (1953) , identified the SelfDesc carrier: the refinement tower X_n with its DecodeHorizon code