Who Discovered the Structure of DNA?

The British scientist Francis Crick and the American scientist James Watson discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. DNA is a substance inside all the cells of living things and governs heredity so that one generation can produce another. DNA molecules can make copies of themselves. In this way, new cells are produced that are exactly like the old cells. A newly born living thing has cells that are copies of its parent cells and inherits their features. Crick and Watson found that DNA molecules consist of group of atoms arranged in two long intertwined strands called a double helix. The strands can form new DNA molecules in which the pattern of atoms is exactly the same.

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