“…Although not all of these observations were made on each pair of nucleotides, the early assumption, based on ion-exchange behavior, that all a isomers were derivatives of one ribose phosphate structure and all b's of the other was strengthened by the derivation of uridylic acid b from cytidylic acid 18 and by the similarities in the susceptibilities of all a's and all b's to a -specific phosphatase.193…”