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   = JAMES WATSON & FRANCIS CRICK =

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On February 28, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick identified the structure of DNA, the hereditary information of life in the form of a double helix.

James Watson was born an American on April 6, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. He went to the University of Chicago at the age of 15 and then furthered his education at the University of Indiana, where he obtained a Ph.D. He was a geneticist. After discovering the structure of DNA, Watson died in 1958, only 30 years after he was born.

 Francis Crick was born on June 8, 1916 in Northampton, England. Therefore, he was of British nationality. Crick attended grammar in his hometown and later moved to North London where he attended Mill High School. Once he was eighteen, he enrolled in University College and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1937. He was a physicist, but later teamed up with James Watson to discover the structure of DNA. In 1953, they discovered that DNA’s structure was in the form of a double helix.

DNA DISCOVERY: James Watson and Francis Crick disovered that the structure of DNA was in the form of a double stranded helix. The work of Rosalind Franklin was used to help them find this.  This is the double stranded helix that was described to be the shape of DNA by Watson and Crick.  <span style="COLOR: rgb(67,244,244)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(67,244,244)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(53,230,243)">  <span style="COLOR: rgb(241,30,30); FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(49,251,14)">Bibliography:

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