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Breaking the code

机译:破解密码

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In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick, with the help of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, described the structure of the molecule at the heart of life. Deoxy-ribonucleic acid, better known as dna, was, they said, a double helix, two spirals joined across the middle by pairs of four chemical bases, like a twisted ladder. That work earned Messrs Crick, Watson and Wilkins a Nobel prize and a place in the history books. The image of the double helix now often stands for biology, or even science, itself. But this was merely the most visible breakthrough in a long struggle to understand the engine of life-how traits are inherited, mutated and weeded out by natural selection, and how the whole mysterious process works at the biochemical level. It is that lesser-known history that Matthew Cobb, a professor of animal behaviour at the University of Manchester, aims to sketch in his book, which has been shortlisted for the Royal Society's Winton prize for science writing.
机译:1953年,詹姆斯·沃森(James Watson)和弗朗西斯·克里克(Francis Crick)在罗莎琳德·富兰克林(Rosalind Franklin)和莫里斯·威尔金斯(Maurice Wilkins)的帮助下,描述了分子结构的核心。他们说,脱氧核糖核酸(又名dna)是一个双螺旋,两个螺旋通过四个化学碱基对连接在中间,就像一个扭曲的梯子。这项工作为克里克(Crick),沃森(Watson)和威尔金斯(Wilkins)赢得了诺贝尔奖,并在历史书籍中占有一席之地。现在,双螺旋的图像通常代表生物学甚至科学本身。但这仅仅是长期努力中最明显的突破,它是了解生命特征的引擎如何通过自然选择来继承,变异和淘汰,以及整个神秘过程如何在生化水平上起作用。曼彻斯特大学动物行为学教授马修·科布(Matthew Cobb)打算在他的书中画些鲜为人知的历史,该书已入围皇家学会温顿科学写作奖。

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    《The economist》 |2015年第8950期|71-72|共2页
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