Central dogma of molecular biology
Dogma central de la biología molecular
- Date
- 1957-1958 · confidence high
- Place
- Cavendish Laboratory / MRC, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Francis Crick
- People
- 👤 Francis Crick1916–2004
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Information flows from DNA to RNA to protein, and not in reverse from protein. Together with the adaptor hypothesis (tRNA), it fixed the conceptual framework of molecular biology.
What it led to
- discovery of mRNA and tRNA
- cracking the genetic code
- reverse transcriptase as an exception (1970)
- bioinformatics