Physico-Chemical Properties of Nucleic Acids: Volume 2

Molecular biology deals with the relationship between molecular structure and biological function. It advanced tremendously when the methods of X-ray diffraction were successfully applied to a number of biological polymers to yield the detailed molecular structures of these materials. With precise information about the structure of an enzyme, for example, its functioning as a catalyst of biochemical reaction can be elucidated in more definite fashion than can be done in the absence of such information.