Chapter 8 - DNA structure and chromosomal organization

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Rosalind Franklin and her "photo 51"
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We continued discussing the history of how the structure of DNA was discovered, including the injustice  (alleged by many) commited towards Rosalind Franklin, who took the X-ray diffraction image known as "photo 51", which was key for Watson and Crick to resolve the structure of the double helix. Her collaborator, Maurice Wilkins showed Watson the picture, without Franklin's knowledge, and the latter failed to acknowledge the fact that HER image put him and Crick on the road to become the icons they officially are today.

Then we talked about the structure of nucleotides and how they are assembled to form the famous DNA double helix.

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