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Francis Crick and James D. Watson present their proposal for the double-helical structure of DNA and its replication scheme. The critical experimental evidence for their proposal comes from Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, who performed x-ray diffraction studies of DNA crystals..

Cold Spring Harbor Labs


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