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    DNA is a double-stranded helical molecule that contains the genetic instructions for living organisms. It consists of two backbones connected by pairs of nitrogenous bases. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins discovered that DNA has a double helix structure with base pairs of A-T and C-G on the inside. This discovery explained how DNA can replicate and pass on genetic information.

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    DNA is a double-stranded helical molecule that contains the genetic instructions for living organisms. It consists of two backbones connected by pairs of nitrogenous bases. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins discovered that DNA has a double helix structure with base pairs of A-T and C-G on the inside. This discovery explained how DNA can replicate and pass on genetic information.

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    DNA is a double-stranded helical molecule that contains the genetic instructions for living organisms. It consists of two backbones connected by pairs of nitrogenous bases. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins discovered that DNA has a double helix structure with base pairs of A-T and C-G on the inside. This discovery explained how DNA can replicate and pass on genetic information.

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    Deoxyribonucleic Acid 

    (DNA) is a double-stranded, helical molecule. It


    consists of two sugar-phosphate backbones on the outside, held together
    by hydrogen bonds between pairs of nitrogenous bases on the inside. The
    bases are of four types (A, C, G, & T): pairing always occurs between A & T,
    and C & G. James Watson (1928 - ) and Francis Crick (1916 -
    2004) realized that these pairing rules meant that either strand contained all
    the information necessary to make a new copy of the entire molecule, and
    that the aperiodic order of bases might provide a "genetic code".

        Watson and Crick shared the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their discovery, along
    with Maurice Wilkins (1916 - 2004), who had continued research to provide a
    large body of crystallographic data supporting the model. Working in the same
    lab, Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) had earlier produced the first clear
    crystallographic evidence for a helical structure. Crick went on to do
    fundamental work in molecular biology and neurobiology. Watson become
    Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and headed up the Human
    Genome Project in the 1990s

     DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid which is a molecule that


    contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, live and
    reproduce.
     It is a type of nucleic acid and is one of the four major types of
    macromolecules that are known to be essential for all forms of life.

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    DNA Model
     The three-dimensional structure of DNA, first proposed by James
    D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick in 1953, consists of two long
    helical strands that are coiled around a common axis to form a
    double helix.
     Each DNA molecule is comprised of two biopolymer strands coiling
    around each other.
     Each strand has a 5′end (with a phosphate group) and a 3′end
    (with a hydroxyl group).
     The strands are antiparallel, meaning that one strand runs in a 5′to
    3′direction, while the other strand runs in a 3′to 5′direction.
     The diameter of the double helix is 2nm and the double-helical
    structure repeats at an interval of 3.4nm which corresponds to ten
    base pairs.
     The two strands are held together by hydrogen bonds and are
    complementary to each other.

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