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On Protein Synthesis

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Creators

  • Francis Crick, author

Canon Rationale

A major molecular biology paper, included for the central dogma, sequence hypothesis, and information-flow framing in gene expression.

Evidence

  • citation context: Crick, 'On Protein Synthesis,' Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 1958.
  • field survey: Nature Reviews Genetics commentary on the central dogma and molecular biology history.

Audit Flags

version dependency, epistemic status required

Completion unit: read the full 1958 paper with attention to what Crick did and did not mean by the central dogma.

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