ABSTRACT
Kornberg, Arthur Molecular biology falters when it ignores the chemistry of the DNA blueprint-the enzymes and proteins, and their products-the integrated machinery and framework of the cell.
Luria, Salvador Molecular biology deals with questions of molecular structure, and therefore is biochemistry; but it is not the classical biochemistry that emerged earlier in the twentieth century out of the concerns of medical, agricultural, and industrial researchers. Molecular biology is genetics because it deals with genes, their functions, and their products; but, in contrast with classical genetics, it has dealt mainly with organisms such as bacteria and viruses rather than peas, maize or fruit flies, whose study had established the classical rules of genetics.
