370 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 195 7 



Eventually chemists should be able to synthesize a small polynucleo- 

 tide specifically arranged ; hence one may now dare to think of syn- 

 thesizing in the laboratory a structure possessing genetic continuity 

 and of all the tremendous implications of such an accomplishment. 



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