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The structure of DNA was discovered by?

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DNA has both primary and secondary structures, on a primary level it is made up of three main molecules a sugar and phosphate group backbone and attached to this backbone on of the four nitrogen bases.

On a secondary level the sugar phosphate and necleotides run anti parallel to another strand of DNA and form a helical structure by wrapping around itself and is held together by hydrogen bonds.

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DNA is in the shape of a double helix. A helix is simple spiral and a double helix is simply two spirals connected to one another that move in the same direction. The shape of DNA was discovered through the combined images from both crystallography and X-ray imaging.

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James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, thanks to the work of Rosalind Franklin.

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In 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered that DNA is in the shape of a double helix.

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The use of DNA crystallography led to the discovery of photo51. This photo showed that a DNA strand is a double helix.

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James Watson, and Francis Crick.

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