AP BIOLOGY

THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE

DNA MAKES RNA MAKES PROTEIN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which scientist is credited with taking a “picture” of DNA using x-ray crystallography?
A
James Watson
B
Howard Stern
C
Francis Cricket
D
Rosalind Franklin
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -At King’s College London, Rosalind Franklin obtained images of DNA using X-ray crystallography, an idea first broached by Maurice Wilkins. Franklin’s images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to create their famous two-strand, or double-helix, model.

Detailed explanation-2: -British scientist Rosalind Franklin’s application of radiation science was truly historic. Her work with x-ray crystallography confirmed the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our university was dedicated in 2004 to Rosalind Franklin, PhD, the brilliant and trailblazing scientist whose Photo 51 revealed the double helix of DNA-a discovery that was essential in unlocking the mystery to how life is passed down from generation to generation. Dr.

Detailed explanation-4: -She is best known for an X-ray diffraction image that she and her graduate student Raymond Gosling published in 19531, which was key to the determination of the DNA double helix. But Franklin’s remarkable work on DNA amounts to a fraction of her record and legacy.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA molecules rendered the important clue that DNA has the structure of a double helix.

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