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    Who discovered the double helix structure of DNA?

    Question #2867. Asked by JLB. (May 28 00 12:25 PM)


    Holmes

    		Watson and Crick

    May 28 00, 12:42 PM
    zbeckabee

    		On Feb. 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that "we had found the secret of life." Actually, they had. That morning, Watson and Crick had figured out the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. And that structure — a "double helix" that can "unzip" to make copies of itself — confirmed suspicions that DNA carries life's hereditary information.

    http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/watsoncrick.html

    Feb 13 08, 11:12 AM

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