What is DNA? (with pictures)

indigomoth Post 37 @Mor - It's important to note that, while Watson and Crick did put the final finishing touches on what scientists believed to be the shape of DNA, they had a lot of help and were only the very last in a chain of discoveries.

They came into the game knowing that DNA was probably composed of two strands and what elements made up those strands and that the gene markers made up the DNA, they weren't the DNA itself.

In particular Rosalind Franklin did a lot of work on the DNA structure and discovered that it was made up of two strands before the other two basically used all her work to prove their own theory. She hardly ever gets credit, since they won the Nobel prize, but I think that's a shame because our understanding of DNA sequencing owes a lot more to her than to them.

They were right on the verge of a breakthrough when one of them had a dream about a pair of snakes, coiled against each other, one with a head pointed down, the other with the head pointed up.

The next day, he realized that if DNA models were arranged like that, it would fit everything and history was made.

easier to understand! Thanks!

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Thanks lot. It will help me for my research on dna.

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Wow. Thank you! I learned a lot. Also you saved me because i have to do a project on dna and it's due tomorrow and i didn't even get started yet. yikes!

Thanks. this makes it easier to understand.

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thanks. this makes it easier to understand.

really easy to understand. thanks!

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Short, simple, to the point! Thanks, this helped me out a lot on my Biology final.

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