James Watson and Francis Crick

question 51

Multiple Choice

James Watson and Francis Crick

• A) were both English researchers working at Cambridge University.
• B) performed elegant experiments in DNA chemistry.
• C) constructed an accurate model of the DNA molecule illustrating its structural simplicity.
• D) performed experiments that convinced scientists that DNA is a double-stranded molecule.
• E) did all of these

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