MemotivaAP Biology Unit 1 Topic 1.6: Nucleic Acids — DNA, RNA, Nucleotide Structure and the Double Helix

Who discovered the structure of DNA?

AP Biology Unit 1 Topic 1.6: Nucleic Acids — DNA, RNA, Nucleotide Structure and the Double Helix

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Who discovered the structure of DNA?

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The double helix structure of DNA was published in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick, building on the X-ray crystallography work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. The discovery is one of the most famous in the history of biology and earned Watson, Crick, and Wilkins the Nobel Prize in 1962.
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