DNA


Q:- Who discovered D.N.A?

-> James Watson and Francis Crick...

Deoxyribonucleic acid or popularly known as DNA is a nucleic acid that contains a genetic code used in the development and functioning of all living organisms.The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes.The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information.

The race to find the structure of DNA in the early 1950's was in full swing. At the Cavendish in Cambridge, England, Watson and Crick were studying together. Watson was doing postdoctoral work, and Crick was working toward his doctorate.

Dr. Crick was a scientist with a thirst to understand and his collaboration with
Dr. Watson that made possible the discovery of the structure of DNA, a feat that neither would have accomplished without the other.It was the discovery of the structure of DNA resolved longstanding questions about the nature of the hereditary material and the manner in which it is copied as one generation succeeds another. Their proposal for the structure, was almost immediately accepted,because it showed how biology, evolution and the nature of life itself could fundamentally be explained in terms of physics and chemistry.

The names of Francis Crick and James D. Watson,in the discovery of the structure of DNA, may be remembered as long as those of Darwin and Mendel, the architects of the two pillars of modern biology: the theory of evolution and the laws of genetics...


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