The discovery that genes are made of DNA, the realisation that this contains information, and the suggestion that genes contain a code all took place in 1943. Professor Matthew Cobb explains the surprising interconnections between these ideas, culminating in Watson and Crick's hypothesis that the structure of DNA contains a genetic code.
This event is part of the 2016 Gravity Fields festival, Grantham.
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