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Matthew Stanley Meselson conducted DNA and RNA research in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He also influenced US policy regarding the use of chemical and biological weapons. Meselson and his colleague Franklin Stahl demonstrated that DNA replication is semi-conservative. Semi-conservative replication means that every newly replicated DNA double helix, which consists of two individual DNA strands wound together, contains one strand that was conserved from a parent double helix and that served as a template for the other strand. Meselson's work enabled researchers to better explain and control cellular development by showing how DNA are copied when a cell divides and interpreted when a cell makes proteins.
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Title
- Matthew Stanley Meselson (1930– )
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Date Created
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2017-05-23
Subjects
- Holmes, Frederic Lawrence
- Meselson, Matthew
- Stahl, Franklin W.
- Watson, James D., 1928-
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- California Institute of Technology. Division of Biology
- DNA Replication
- Brenner, Sydney
- Agent Orange
- Vietnam
- Herbicides
- DNA--Synthesis
- Holmes, Frederic Lawrence
- Meselson, Matthew
- Stahl, Franklin W.
- Watson, James D., 1928-
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- California Institute of Technology. Division of Biology
- University of Rochester
- Brenner, Sydney
- Harvard-Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation
- Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (1925)
Keywords
- People
- Delbruck, Max
- semiconservative replication
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