Jurassic Park
Novel
By: Michael Crichton
Date: 1990
Source: Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1990, 66–69.
About the Author: Michael Crichton (1942–) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he earned a B.A. in anthropology in 1965 from Harvard University, and an M.D. in 1969 from Harvard Medical School. He turned to writing rather than the practice of medicine. His novels focus on the implications of scientific developments. His fiction has garnered awards and has been the source of several popular films.
Introduction
In 1953, American chemist James D. Watson and his British counterpart, Francis Crick, identified deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as the molecule of heredity. They described its structure as a spiral ladder with each rung composed of two of the four nucleotide bases—adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. Adenine always bonds...
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