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Analysis Of DNA Breakthroughs

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In the early 1950 a question was answer that has puzzled us for a while. How do humans pass on traits to our offspring? James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins help answer the questions about DNA. Breakthroughs don’t just happen overnight. It takes time because you have to understand and put the pieces together. Also technology was a big help with making this discovery. Before they made the big discovery they needed to know a few things about DNA. They knew what made up DNA. They also knew how DNA was set up, and that the DNA bases are always occur in the same ratio. I think what motivated them was that they wanted to be the first to make the discovery. It was very competitive at the time because everyone wanted

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