Watson and Crick
Double helix duo
Watson and Crick are the molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick, who in 1953 discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
Their names appear together so frequently that they function as a single unit, representing the breakthrough that launched modern genetics: the Watson and Crick model, since Watson and Crick, we've understood how genetic information is stored.
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- double helixTwo intertwined spirals
- spiral staircaseAscending structure winding around pole
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- discoveryAct of finding something
Nobel Prize · King's College · Cambridge · 1953 · nucleotides · base pairs · base pairing · adenine · thymine · guanine · cytosine · molecular biology · structure · replication · chromosomes · genes · scientific breakthrough · protein
- biologistsbiologist, geneticist, molecular biologist, microbiologist, biochemist
- famous pairsBatman and Robin, Bonnie and Clyde, Tom and Jerry, Mickey and Minnie, Romeo and Juliet
- Biology HistoryDarwin, Mendel, evolution, natural selection, cell theory
- Science Historyscientific revolution, natural philosophy, scientific method, scientific journals, Royal Society
- historical figureshistorical figures, leaders, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Joan of Arc
- Co-creatorsLennon and McCartney, Gilbert and Sullivan