DNA Double Helix Structure

Observe the DNA Double Helix Structure. The letters A, C, G, and T represent the bases which are acids that make up DNA. (Notice they come in pairs; A is always with T and G is always with C).

 James Watson and Francis Crick presented the structure of the DNA-helix in 1953. Nine years later, in 1962, they shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Maurice Wilkins, for solving one of the most important of all biological riddles.

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