Rosalind Franklin is one of the worlds most famous female scientists, it is because of her James Watson and Francis Crick were able to confirm their theory that DNA is structured in a double helix formation. Franklin graduated Cambridge University as a chemistry graduate. To discover the formation of DNA Franklin worked with Maurice Wilkins, to him Franklin wasn't his peer, she was a woman, thus in a lower rank to him. The two never had a good relationship. It was when Franklin made crystallographic portraits of DNA that the race was truly on, she was extremely close the figuring out the whole DNA formation herself. It was now that Wilkins showed her work to James Watson, the answer to the puzzle was immediately obvious to him; he and Crick had the exact theory that she was trying to prove.
I believe that Franklin should have received more credit for her work, it is possible that because she was a woman she wouldn't be considered for a Nobel Prize. Yes, Watson and Crick put all the pieces of the puzzle together, however, it was Franklin that discovered the formation of DNA, therefore she should be credited for the research, if Watson and Crick hadn't been shown Franklin's crystallographic portraits Franklin would have figured out the formation on her own, and would have been credited entirely for the research.
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Rosalind Franklin is one of the worlds most famous female scientists, it is because of her James Watson and Francis Crick were able to confirm their theory that DNA is structured in a double helix formation. Franklin graduated Cambridge University as a chemistry graduate. To discover the formation of DNA Franklin worked with Maurice Wilkins, to him Franklin wasn't his peer, she was a woman, thus in a lower rank to him. The two never had a good relationship. It was when Franklin made crystallographic portraits of DNA that the race was truly on, she was extremely close the figuring out the whole DNA formation herself. It was now that Wilkins showed her work to James Watson, the answer to the puzzle was immediately obvious to him; he and Crick had the exact theory that she was trying to prove.
I believe that Franklin should have received more credit for her work, it is possible that because she was a woman she wouldn't be considered for a Nobel Prize. Yes, Watson and Crick put all the pieces of the puzzle together, however, it was Franklin that discovered the formation of DNA, therefore she should be credited for the research, if Watson and Crick hadn't been shown Franklin's crystallographic portraits Franklin would have figured out the formation on
discovered that DNA was the one that carried genetic information and not amino acids which were assumed to have done so before. Many people after Erwin decided to begin testing and have discovered many things. Rosalind Franklin discovered the shape of DNA through X-ray diffraction (Rosalind Franklin 1), and James Watson and Francis Crick worked together to solve the DNA structure but had no success (Nobel Lectures 1).After a few years, Watson and Crick had actually been able to discover the actual structure…
DNA DISCOVERY Who was Rosalind Franklin, what did she discover and how did she discover it? Rosalind franklin was a Pioneer Molecular Biologist which discovered the discovery of DNA structure helped her co-workers understand how genetic information passes from parents to their offspring. Rosalind also discovered the double helix by a process called x-ray crystallography. X-ray crystallography is a tool used for identifying the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline…
are; James Watson was only interested in becoming famous in the field of science which led him to pursue the field of D.N.A. structuring, Maurice Wilkins only wanted to prove his claim that the structure of D.N.A. was a helical structure, and Rosalind Franklin wanted to prove that women could be in the field of science by finding the structure by herself. These three pieces of evidence help show how emotions come into play in the discovery of the structure of D.N.A. When James Watson was deciding…
event in biology after Darwin's grand theory of Evolution. Watson and Crick devised the structure using tinker-toy-like models and corroborating their findings with x-ray crystallographs which were surreptitiously taken from the laboratory of Rosalind Franklin. Watson was a wunderkind American who acquired his PhD in zoology at the age of 23; Crick was a 35 year-old boisterous gad-about who was struggling for direction, having earned his BS in physics and unable to get the proper motivation for…
actually determined it first but the scientific community didn't believe it could be dna). next the race was on to determine the exact structure of dna which was determined by watson and crick in 1953 using a xray diffraction photograph taken by rosalyn franklin. 3. How did Griffiths and Avery’s experiments increase our understanding of the molecular basis of inheritance? -We learned that mixing a heat-killed pathogenic strain of bacteria with a living nonpathogenic strain can convert some of the living…
DNA AND RNA REVIEW Which of these diagrams shows the structure of a nucleotide? A C B D Name two nucleic acids. DNA and RNA Identify the part of the nucleotide labeled A. Identify the part of the nucleotide labeled B. Identify the part of the nucleotide labeled C. A phosphate group B nitrogenous base C deoxyribose or ribose adenine, thymine, Name two nitrogenous bases. guanine, cytosine, or uracil For the following definitions, give the vocabulary word(s): • segment of DNA that…
graduate study in zoology at Indiana University at Bloomington, then that where he received his Ph.D. degree in zoology during the 1950. Who was James working with? James joined the Cavendish laboratories with Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and Linus Pauling. The group was racing to determine the structure of the DNA. Who was James Inspiration? James was in Indiana for university when he was deeply inspired by both geneticists H.J Muller, T.M Sonneborn, and by S.E Luria. S.E…
are dominant while others are recessive (Campbell and Reece, 2005). Forty-five years later in 1902 Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri hypothesized that chromosomes carry genetic information. By 1953 the combined research of Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins allowed Crick and Watson to determine the structure…
is DNA and not protein or carbohydrate. Hershey and Chase- Identified the double helix structure Discovered the difference between DNA and RNA Identified DNA as the transforming factor Identified proteins as the transforming factor Rosalind Franklin-She's the one that spotted DNA first, but Watson and Crick expanded her idea and got through where we know today about DNA. Reason why she isn't really that important back then is because females are minorities back then and aren't important…
phosphate group and one of the nitrogen bases (A, T, G, and C). All of their parts are joint in the same way. T and C are pyrimidines (single ring structure) and A and G are purines (which are larger, bulkier molecules, double ring structure). Rosalind Franklin had obtained especially good x- ray diffraction images of DNA fibers. By this process, a beam of x-rays is directed at a molecule. The molecule scatters the beam in patterns that can be captured on film. The pattern itself consists only of dots…
