Biologist ___________________________
Date ______________
DNA – The Secret of Life
1. Watson didn’t think he and Crick were ________________ rather, he felt the “other people”
were ___________________.
2. Chromosomes are made of 2 discrete ingredients, _________________ & ___________________.
3. Watson and Crick had a hunch that the three dimensional _________________ of DNA might
reveal its __________________.
4. During the Second World War, Maurice Wilkins helped create the _____________________.
5. According to Watson, what was common to all forms of life?
6. What did Chargoff, the German scientist Watson describes as a “born enemy,” discover?
7. The X pattern in Rosalind’s photographs suggested that the DNA molecule was in the shape
of a ________________.
8. According to Maurice Wilkins, “Science ought to be an ________________ activity.”
9. Today, Wilkins lectures at King’s College in London on the “ _____________________” of
science.
10. What is Francis Crick up to these days? Where is he? What is he researching?
Biologist ___________________________
Date ______________
DNA – The Secret of Life
1. Watson didn’t think he and Crick were ________________ rather, he felt the “other people”
were ___________________.
2. Chromosomes are made of 2 discrete ingredients, _________________ & ___________________.
3. Watson and Crick had a hunch that the three dimensional _________________ of DNA might
reveal its __________________.
4. During the Second World War, Maurice Wilkins helped create the _____________________.
5. According to Watson, what was common to all forms of life?
6. What did Chargoff, the German scientist Watson describes as a “born enemy,” discover?
7. The X pattern in Rosalind’s photographs suggested that the DNA molecule was in the shape
of a ________________.
8. According to Maurice Wilkins, “Science ought to be an ________________ activity.”
9. Today, Wilkins lectures at King’s College in London on the “ _____________________” of
science.
10. What is Francis Crick up to these days? Where is he? What is he researching?