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Watson–Crick Biochem.|ˌwɒtsənˈkrɪk|
The names of James D. Watson (b. 1928), U.S. biochemist, and Francis H. C. Crick (b. 1916), English biochemist, used attrib. with reference to the pairing of adenine with thymine (or uracil) and of guanine with cytosine in the two strands of a double helix, described by them in 1953.
1964G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. ix. 229 The Watson-Crick pairs are purine-pyrimidine pairs. 1966T. H. Jukes Molecules & Evolution i. 5 When cells divide and multiply, this sequence [of bases in DNA] replicates itself enzymatically through the Watson–Crick complementary pairing mechanism. 1976Nature 23 Sept. 289/1 Much of the pairing at the third codon position also involves the normal Watson–Crick base pairs, A–U, and G–C, but for several codon–tRNA interactions, non-Watson–Crick pairs are clearly required. |