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Arose from the convergence of work by geneticists, physicists, and structural chemists on the nature of inheritance.

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Molecular Biology

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Starting year of molbio

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1930s

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Golden age of molbio

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1950s and 1960s

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The study of biomolecules and biomolecular mechanisms that occur in living organisms

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Molecular biology

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Molecular biology is mainly focused on?

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  • Gene structure and function
  • Molecular nature of gene
  • Gene replication, mutation and repair
  • Gene expressions

in short words: mechanisms

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This is the basis of gene

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Central dogma

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Genomics

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DNA

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Transcriptomics

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RNA

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Proteomics

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Protein

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Metabolomics

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metabolites

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This is the study of molecular basis of life such as biochemical processes that control information flow through biochemical signalling and the flow of chemical energy through metabolism.

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Biochemistry

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Biochemistry deals with the structures and functions of?

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  • Proteins
  • Carbohydrates
  • Lipids
  • Nucleic acids
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13
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This scientist coined the term “molecular biology”

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Warren Weaver (1938)

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Father of Modern Genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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This scientist worked on the transmission of inheritable traits.

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Gregor Mendel

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Mendelian laws

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  • Law of Segregation
  • Law of Independent Assortment
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This scientist discovered a new molecule from the cell nucleus, and believed that proteins were the molecules of heredity.

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Friedrich Miescher (1869)

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18
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Friedrich Miescher (1869) discovered?

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nuclein

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This refers to the previously thought transforming principle, now called as DNA.

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nuclein

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20
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This scientist studied two strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae in mice.

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Frederick Griffith (1928)

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21
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highly virulent strain, with a capsule (polysaccharide)

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smooth strain

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22
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non virulent, lacked a capsule

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rough strain

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23
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This refers to the autopsy in animals.

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Necropsy

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24
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Mouse lives in?

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  • r strain
  • heat killed smooth strain
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Mouse dies in?

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  • s strain
  • rough strain and heat killed smooth strain
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Mechanism of smooth strain

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  • Smooth strain is killed with heat, but not the DNA
  • Rough strain engulfs DNA coding for the capsule
  • Rough strain becomes virulent
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These scientists used a process of elimination to identify the transforming principle.

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Oswald Avery,
Colin McLeod,
Maclyn McCarty
(1944)

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Tubes used by Avery, McLeod, McCarty

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1st: proteinase - S cells appear
2nd: ribonuclease - S cells appear
3rd: deoxyribonuclease - No S cells appear

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29
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These scientists proved that DNA is the transforming principle using T2 bacteriophages.

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Alfred Hershey,
Martha Chase
(1952)

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30
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What does T2 bacteriophage infect?

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Escherichia coli

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This is what Hershey and Chase used in their experiment, in which it consists both protein and DNA selectively incorporated by radioactive isotopes for tracing of bacterial infection.

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T2 bacteriophages

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32
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Radioactive isotopes in T2 bacteriophage

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32-phosphate (DNA)
35-sulfur (Protein)

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33
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This scientist discovered the content of DNA.

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Phoebus Levene

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34
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Levene discovered the following:

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  • order of the three major components of a single nucleotide (phosphate-sugar-base)
  • Ribose (carb of RNA)
  • Deoxyribose (Carb of DNA)
  • correctly identify the way RNA and DNA are put together
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35
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T/F: Ribose/deoxyribose is a pentose sugar.

36
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This scientist discovered that the nucleotide composition of DNA varies among species.

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Erwin Chargaff

37
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Chargaff Rules

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  1. A = T, C = G
  2. (A+G) = (C+T)
38
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T/F: The “Chargaff Rules” are considered basis for double helix structure.

39
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These scientists were able to generate two sets of high-resolution photos of crystallized DNA fibers.

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Rosalind Franklin,
Raymond Gosling
(1951)

40
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This scientist was offered a 3-year research at King’s College to improve the X-ray Crystallography unit.

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Rosalind Franklin

41
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T/F: Franklin deduced that the phosphates were outside, not hinting a helical structure.

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False

yun ung hint xD

42
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This scientist borrowed Photo 51 and passed onto Watson and Crick.

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Maurice Wilkins

43
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This is the unsung hero who recruited Franklin among the issue of gender bias in the scientific field.

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John Randall

44
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The Plate Model was done by?

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Watson and Crick

45
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These scientists provided experimental proof for semiconservative replication.

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Matthew Meselson,
Franklin Stahl
(1957)

46
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What did Meselson and Stahl invent?

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density gradient centrifugation

47
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This uses centrifugal force to separate molecules based on densities.

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density gradient centrifugation

48
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This scientist enunciated the concept of “Central Dogma of Molecular Biology”

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Francis Crick (1958)

49
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Ideology for Crick’s’ Central Dogma

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  • Protein does not revert back to DNA/RNA
  • Some convert RNA to DNA
50
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RT-PCR stands for?

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Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction

51
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In which virus does reverse transcriptase come from?

52
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PCR

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RNA to complementary DNA

53
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This scientist utilized fruit flies for the Chromosome theory.

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

54
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Scientific name for fruit flies

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Drosophila melanogaster

55
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This scientist discovered that if there is variation in DNA, there is also variation in expression with the use of hereditary characteristics of fruit flies.

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Hermann J. Muller (1927)

56
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This scientist provided the first detailed description of transposable elements, known as jumping genes, through maize.

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Barbara McClintok

57
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Jumping genes are also referred to as?

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transposons

58
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This scientist isolated and discovered DNA polymerase I.

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Arthur Kornberg

59
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This scientist won the Nobel Prize for enzymatic synthesis for DNA.

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Arthur Kornberg

60
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This scientist won the Nobel Prize for enzymatic synthesis for RNA.

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Severo Ochoa

61
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These scientists discovered messenger RNA and bacterial operons.

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Francois Jacob,
Andrew Lwoff,
Jacques Monod

62
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This is considered as the intermediary between DNA and its protein products, and contains the instruction for protein or antibody.

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messenger RNA

63
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These are protein-binding regulatory sequences.

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bacterial operons

64
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T/F: mRNA cannot enter the nucleus.

65
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These scientists first unlocked the genetic code.

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Marshall Nirenberg,
Har Gobind Khorana,
Philip Leder,
Heinrich Matthari
(1963 and 1966)

66
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What was the first discovered genetic code?

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AUG (Methionine)

67
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This scientist discovered transfer RNA.

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Robert Holley

68
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These scientists discovered Restriction Endonucleases technology.

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Messelson, Werner Asber,
Daniel Nathans, Hamilton Smith
(1969 and 1970)

69
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These scientists discovered Recombinant DNA technology.

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Paul Berg, Stanley Cohen, Herbert Boyer

70
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This scientist discovered DNA sequencing.

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Frederick Sanger

71
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These scientists discovered the Reverse Transcriptase enzyme and study tumor virus activity.

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David Baltimore, Renato Dulbeco, Howard Temin

72
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This scientist discovered the taxonomy of 16s rRNA, resulting to a tree of life.

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Carl Woese

73
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What domain did Woese discovered?

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third domain, Archae

74
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This scientist introduced the Maxam-Gilbert DNA sequencing.

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Walter Gilbert, Allan Maxam (1977)

75
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This scientist proposes existence of introns and exons.

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Walter Gilbert (1978)

76
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In 1986, what was proposed by Gilbert as the origins of life?

77
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Ribozymes

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Thomas Cech, Sidney Altman (1986)

78
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Nucleic acid-protein complexes

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Aaron Klug (1981)

79
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Spearhead of the Human Genome Project

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James Watson (1989)

80
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Knockout mice technique

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Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, Oliver Smithies (1989)

81
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Cloning of “Dolly” the sheep by nuclear transfer from cultured cell line

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Keith Campbell, Ian Wilmut (1996)

82
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This scientist discovered the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

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Kary Mullis (1993)

83
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RNA interference

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Craig Mello, Andrew Fire (1998)

84
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Crystal structure of the ribosome

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Thomas Steitz

85
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These scientists discovered CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing mechanism/

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Emanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Anne Doudna (2011)

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