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Cairns mechanism

Cairns mechanism

(Science: molecular biology) a mechanism for the replication of a double stranded circular dna molecule. Replication is initiated at a fixed point and proceeds either uni or bi directionally.


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Molecular gene (genome) concept scientifically untenable

... and his group contributed substantially to the understanding of the mechanism of heredity. In the year 1933, on the occasion of his Nobel address, ... believed this heretical proposal [21]. In 1988 molecular biologist John Cairns and his colleagues observed induced mutations of various elements ...

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