THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
DNA MAKES RNA MAKES PROTEIN
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Question
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Who developed the double helix model of the DNA molecule?
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Darwin
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Watson and Crick
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Franklin & McDevitt
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Hardy & Weinberg
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick published their theory that DNA must be shaped like a double helix. A double helix resembles a twisted ladder. Each ‘upright’ pole of the ladder is formed from a backbone of alternating sugar and phosphate groups.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. In 1962 Watson (b.
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