Nucleic acid double helix
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In molecular biology, the double helix is the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA. The double-helical structure of a nucleic acid complex arises as a consequence
Base pair geometries
Rosalind Franklin
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her
Nucleic acid double helix
…B-DNA do so through the wider major groove. The double helix structure of DNA was first proposed by James Watson and Francis Crick, based on the work of Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, Maurice Wilkins, and others. The term "double helix" entered popular culture with the 1968 publication of Watson's The Double Helix…
Franklin with a microscope in 1955
A satirical death note of A-DNA helix by Franklin and Gosling
An electron micrograph of tobacco mosaic virus
Blue plaque (now replaced) on The Eagle, Cambridge, with Franklin's name added at the bottom