Early search for the “hereditary molecule”

8:35>> right right >> so the prevailing view was that it's proteins >> okay everyone and and it kind of makes sense if you look back in the 1920s 1930s proteins have a really complicated structure there's 20 different amino acids that we had already kind of figured out from biochemical pathways and the fact that there's 20 different amino acids. Proteins already we know have so many different functions, right? So it's like it's kind of an obvious thing to say that yeah proteins are the thing that are conferring >> inheritance. The idea is you know proteins are where a lot of it's the workhorse. Yes. It's it's where a lot of stuff can happen

9:15>> happen. Yeah. It happens not can literally happens. >> Yes. Literally proteins are doing all these things. They're incredibly diverse. And given the diversity of life, >> it's just like, oh, it's another thing in the toolbox.