BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

BIOLOGY

NUCLEIC ACIDS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which technique was used to determine the double-helical structure of DNA?
A
electrophoresis
B
chromatography
C
centrifugation
D
X-ray crystallography
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Taken in 1952, this image is the first X-ray picture of DNA, which led to the discovery of its molecular structure by Watson and Crick . Created by Rosalind Franklin using a technique called X-ray crystallography, it revealed the helical shape of the DNA molecule.

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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Crystals are solids with regular, repeating units of atoms. Some biological macromolecules, such as DNA, can form fibers suitable for analysis using X-ray crystallography because their solid forms consist of atoms arranged in a regular pattern.

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