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Unlocking the Mystery of Life, a 58-minute program exploring
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to every Public Broadcasting station in the nation. The program
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Unlocking the Mystery of Life represents a unique programming
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discovery that the DNA molecule carries hereditary information
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computer software or a written language. This discovery
(announced on April 25,1953) sparked a scientific revolution.
But it also left a fundamental question un