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James Watson: Media

American geneticist and biophysicist

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Study DNA's double helix structure to learn how the organic chemical determines an organism's traits
James Watson and Francis Crick revolutionized the study of genetics when they discovered...
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James Watson, c. 1990
Courtesy National Human Genome Research Institute
DNA structure
The initial proposal of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick was...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
James Watson
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine