NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
BIOCHEMISTRY
Question
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Hooke
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Crick
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Franklin
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Watson
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was her student Robert Gosling who took the historical photograph no-51 ie X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA. James Watson and Francis Krick should have given due credit to her but they failed.
Detailed explanation-2: -The discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 was made possible by Dr Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction work at King’s. Her creation of the famous Photo 51 demonstrated the double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid: the molecule containing the genetic instructions for the development of all living organisms.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gosling, working under Franklin’s supervision, actually took the famous Photograph 51, whose X-shaped image would lead James Watson and Francis Crick to conceptualize DNA’s structure as a double helix, the breakthrough that would lead to today’s genetic treatments.