Scientists That Discovered DNA

Built models to determine that DNA was a double helix shape with base pairs A-T and G-C in rungs between the sugar/phosphate backbone of DNA.

• Watson & Crick

• Franklin

• Wilkins

• Pauling

• Chargaff

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Provided clear x-ray crystallography images of DNA

• Watson & Crick

• Franklin

• Wilkins

• Pauling

• Chargaff

Discovered that there was the same amount of A and T in a cell, and C and G in a cell.

• Watson & Crick

• Franklin

• Wilkins

• Pauling

• Chargaff

Who discovered the structure of DNA?

• Watson & Crick

• Franklin

• Watson, Crick & Franklin

• Watson, Crick, Wilkins & Franklin

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Which scientist helped Watson & Crick discover the shape of DNA but didn't win the Nobel Prize?

• Wilkins

• Franklin

• Watson

• Crick

Now that scientists know all the letters that make up human DNA (i.e. have "mapped" the human genome), what can doctors do in the near future?

• Perform the right surgery for us.

• Personalize our medicines based on our genetics (DNA).

• Give us super powers.

• Prevent disease.

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made the first 3D model of DNA's spiral structure; called it a double helix

• Hooke

• Schleiden and Schwann

• Franklin

• Watson and Crick

Who were the scientists that discovered the double helix structure of DNA?

• Watson and Crick

• Franklin and Wilkins

• Mendel and Darwin

• Hooke and Leeuwenhoek

Which scientist's X-ray diffraction images were critical to discovering the DNA structure?

• Rosalind Franklin

• James Watson

• Francis Crick

• Maurice Wilkins

What is the significance of the discovery of the DNA double helix?

• It explained the mechanism of genetic inheritance

• It led to the discovery of antibiotics

• It proved the theory of evolution

• It discovered the structure of proteins

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