LAB 28: NUCLEIC ACIDS:
Movie: Race for the Double Helix (aka Life Story)
Name ____________
1. What is the Date/Time frame for the events in this movie? ________________________________
2. What role did the following people play in the research and discovery of the structure of DNA?
Name
Role
Nationality
A. James Watson
Age _______
B. Francis Crick
Age _______
C. Linus Pauling
D. Rosalind Franklin
E. Maurice Wilkins
F. Erwin Chargaff
3. Where were the following working?
Name
Institution of Research/Investigation
A. Watson & Crick
B. Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin
4. Determining the structure of DNA wasn’t supposed to be Francis Crick’s project. What was he
suppose to be working on?
5. Good scientists make hypotheses to explain observations. Was Watson and Crick’s model a
hypothesis? What observations did it explain? Did they test their hypothesis?
6.
When Rosalind Franklin finally had the opportunity to look at the final DNA double-helix model
constructed by Watson & Crick what was her response? (Write a couple of sentences summarizing what she
felt and what she said.)
7. What aspects contributed to or hindered the discovery.
8. Additional comments or your general attitude about the process of making this discovery.
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