The essay […] is a supplement to Darwinism on the speculative side, a contribution by a trained zoologist and comparative anatomist, with a genius for speculation, to what may be called molecular biology.
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molecular biologybiologie moléculaire (fr.); Molekularbiologie (ger.)
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Biology at the molecular level; esp. the branch of science concerned with the formation, organization, and activity of macromolecules essential to life (nucleic acids, proteins, etc.); the biology of something at the molecular level. (OED)
- 1884
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Gray, A. (1884). [Rev. Brooks, W.K. (1883). The Law of Heredity. A Study of the Came of Variation and the Origin of Living Organisms]. American Journlal of Science 27, 156-157: 156.
- 1938
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And gradually there is coming into being a new branch of science—molecular biology—which is beginning to uncover many secrets concerning the ultimate units of the living cell.
Weaver, W. (1938). The natural sciences. Rep. Rockefeller Found. 1938, 203-225: 203.
- 1950
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The name ‘molecular biology’ seems to be passing now into fairly common use […]. It implies not so much a technique as an approach, an approach from the viewpoint of the so-called basic sciences with the leading idea of searching below the large-scale manifestations of classical biology for the corresponding molecular plan. It is concerned particularly with the forms of biological molecules, and with the evolution, exploitation and ramification of those forms in the ascent to higher and higher levels of organization.
Astbury, W.T. (1950). Adventures in molecular biology. Harvey Lectures 46, 3-44: 3.
- 1970
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when I drafted the “natural science” section of the Annual Report of the Rockefeller Foundation for 1938 this section began with a sixteen-page portion, pages 203-219, which was headed, in large type, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, the first sentence being “Among the studies to which the Foundation is giving support is a relatively new field, which may be called molecular biology, in which delicate modern techniques are being used to investigate ever more minute details of certain life details.”
Weaver, W. (1970). Molecular biology: origin of the term. Science 170, 591-592: 592.
- 2011
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Die Molekularbiologie ist die Teildisziplin der Biologie, die Lebensprozesse auf molekularer Ebene untersucht.
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