In Addition to Knowing the Chemical Structures of the Nucleotides,Watson

question 66

Multiple Choice

In addition to knowing the chemical structures of the nucleotides,Watson and Crick used ________ of Franklin and Wilkins and the chemical equivalencies of Chargaff in order to propose their model of DNA structure.

• A)sequence information
• B)UV spectra
• C)% (G +C)and % (A +T)
• D)X-ray diffraction data

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Definitions:

Linear Relationship

describes a direct proportionality between two variables, meaning as one variable increases or decreases, the other does so in a constant rate.

Interval Variables

Variables measured along a scale in which each point is placed at an exact distance from each other, like temperature in Celsius.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Coefficient of Correlation

A statistical measure that calculates the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.