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Who discovered the structure of dna? - rosalind franklin and maurice wilkins worked out dna had a helical structure by directing beams of x-rays onto crystallised dna and looking at the patterns of x-rays formed as they bounced off. - james watson and francis crick used these ideas along with the idea the amount of adenine+guanine matched the amount of thymine+cytosine to make a model of the dna molecule where all the pieces fitted together.

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1. Who discovered the structure of dna? - rosalind franklin and maurice wilkins worked out dna had a helical structure by directing beams of x-rays onto crystallised dna and looking at the patterns of x-rays formed as they bounced off. - james watson and francis crick used these ideas along with the idea the amount of adenine+guanine matched the amount of thymine+cytosine to make a model of the dna molecule where all the pieces fitted together.





 
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