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DURING an investigation of metabolic processes in starving bacteria we observed that a significant net synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) took place in them1; no increase in the amount of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein could be detected (unpublished results).
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BRDAR, B., KOS, E. & DRAKULIĆ, M. Metabolism of Nucleic Acids and Protein in Starving Bacteria. Nature 208, 303–304 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208303a0
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