Today’s Great Line from the Literature
From Jacob and Wollman (1958), Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 12, 75-92.
“One is thus led to dispose all known genetic characters on a circle….It seems unnecessary to emphasize that this diagrammatic representation, which is the simplest one that will account for the observed results at the present time, is not meant to imply that the bacterial chromosome is actually circular.”
(It is circular.)
