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t t question a brilliant piece of detective t of Franklin’s picture.
tion of Nature carried a 900-icle by atson and Crick titled“A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid.” Accompanying it e articles byilkins and Franklin. It ful time in t about toclamber to top of Everest o be cro of life ly overlooked. It received a smallmention in the News Chronicle and was ignored elsewhere.
Rosalind Franklin did not s t ty-seven in 1958, four years before ted. Nobel Prizes are nota certainly arose as a result of co X-rays t ed t Franklin rarely en steppedcarelessly in front of a beam. Oserity, t least isfaction of living just longenougo see ed. he died in 1955.
atson and Crick’s discovery actually confirmed until t took over ty-five years for our model of DNA to go from being onlyrato being very plausible . . . and from to being virtually certainlycorrect.”
Even so, ructure of DNA understood progress in genetics , and by 1968ticle titled “t as t as,”
suggesting—it it is so—t tics anend.
In fact, of course, it beginning. Even no deal about DNA tand, not least actually seem to do anything.
Ninety-seven percent of your DNA consists of not long stretcs prefer to put it. Only rand do you find sections t control and organize vital functions. thecurious and long-elusive genes.
Genes are notructions to make proteins. tain dull fidelity. In te and notrifle monotonous. But combine te ce variety.
Put all togeto continue tap sympenc