In 1953, Watson and Crick published a discovery without doin…
In 1953, Watson and Crick published a discovery without doing a single laboratory experiment. Data from Rosalind Franklin was not published, yet Watson and Crick were able to view her data through seminars and visits to Franklin’s lab. What did Watson and Crick learn from Franklin’s data? Listing what they learned is sufficient. You don’t have to write a long paragraph.
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In 1953, Watson and Crick published a discovery without doing a single laboratory experiment. Finally, Watson and Crick used a recently proposed concept from Linus Pauling. Which idea that Pauling proposed about protein structure did Watson and Crick use? How did Watson and Crick use Pauling’s concept and Chargaff’s and Franklin’s data to come up with their discovery?
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View figure 2 versus 3. Why are the heavy ribosomes labeled with P-32? Besides being labeled with P-32, how do you know these ribosomes are not light? (Ribosomes made in nutrient broth would have N-14 and C-12 isotopes. But, this is not how you know which band has light and which band has heavy ribosomes.) What did the authors want to control for with this experiment?
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