Replication mechanism becomes clear

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1:10:01creates the three and two pairing which now is like that's how everything can now click together. >> Yes. And then this also explains char gas rules, right? Because now the A's and the T's are pairing and the C and the G is pairing >> because it's the two and the three hydrogen bonds uh as what creates that's the reason why they're paired in that way. >> Yes. There's a physical understanding there, right? And >> it's it's it's an incredible like story, right? All of this stuff coming together because they hate the Caltech guy. [laughter] >> Look, I just want everyone to know California is still the best. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like they were scared. >> They were scared and they were scared for good reason cuz it had nothing's happened since [laughter]
1:10:42>> so that they were correct in their fear. >> Dude, Lance Ping was was was really scaring them. So [laughter] it's like so so now they finally figured this out. April 1953. >> Yes. Okay. >> Is when they decide, okay, we're going to publish this. >> Okay. >> They have a triple publication. Watson and Crick published their very famous molecular structure of nucleic acid. a structure for deoxxyribboucleic acid. It's just a two-page paper in nature. >> No way. >> It's a two-page paper in nature. There's no experimental findings because they didn't do any experiments. >> Yeah. They just put it out. >> They just put it out. They're like, "This is the >> we're first." >> Yeah. >> Cuz we have to beat them.
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