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Discovery of DNA

A team effort

A team effort

The work of pioneering scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maclyn McCarty (pictured at left) led to our present day understanding of DNA. Scientist Rosalind Franklin discovered the X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA (pictured at right), which helped to elucidate its double helix structure. (credit a: modification of work by Marjorie McCarty, Public Library of Science)

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