Molecular structure of DNA and RNA - Discovery of the double helix
14 important questions on Molecular structure of DNA and RNA - Discovery of the double helix
What was not known of DNA in the 1950s?
What 4 people played a major role in the discovery of the double helix?
- Francis Crick
- Rosalind Franklin
- Maurice Wilkins
Why committed these 4 people themselves to determining the structure of DNA?
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Which method was important in the discovery of the double helix?
What proposed Linus Pauling in the 1950s?
Are models still used to unterstand structures of molecules?
Which development led also to the discovery of the double helix?
What is X-ray diffraction?
Which 3 observations concerning the structure of DNA made Rosalind Franklin during her experiments with DNA and X-ray diffraction?
- The diameter of the structure was too wide to be a single-stranded helix
- The helix had about 10 bp (basepairs) per complete turn.
What kind of experiment was done by Chargaff?
Which to things kept Watson and Crick in mind, during there attempts to build a model of the structure of DNA?
- The chemical linkage between two nucleotides is always the same.
Who was the first to suggest a two-strand interaction that was helical?
What did Watson and Crick finally discover?
Who got the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?
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