JAMES WATSON: “HOW WE DISCOVERED DNA”
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1. Who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953?
2. James Watson attended which college when he was 17?
3. Who is Charles Darwin?
4. What text gave Watson the inspiration to research the structure of DNA?
5. How did Watson know there had to be something universal about DNA?
6. What is X-Ray Crystallography?
7. Reading is a good thing because you
things.
8. The first model of DNA (not done by Watson & Crick) was wrong because there where
hydrogens surrounded by
.
9. Rosalind Franklin did the first DNA X-Ray
structure though.
. She did not want to model the
10. After Watson and Crick modeled DNA’s structure, it took
pay attention to them.
11. They couldn’t patent their DNA structure because there was no
until 1973, when
DNA was discovered.
12. What is the significance of doing a DNA biopsy?
years for anyone to
for it