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How Did The Scientists Actually Work Together To Solve The Double Helix

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The Double helix structure of DNA and the genetic code is the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century. DNA is short of “deoxyribonucleic acid”. DNA delivers the instructions for copying a new organism. Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick were all involved in this discovery; however did the scientists actually work together to solve this discovery?

The Double Helix is four bases, two of the bases are bonded in pairs, for example “G with C” and “A with T”, they are arranged like steps on a spiral staircase inside two strands of sugar-phosphates running in opposite directions. James Watson and Francis Crick discovered this structure, they were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize. But Rosalind Franklin was the one
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