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55. Dr. Cam’s DNA Model

Category – Science

DNA has been described as the building block of life. Click below to watch a short video on how DNA works.

Click below to read an in-depth discussion of genetics and DNA in the National Library of Medicine. This longer paper is at the technical level of an article in Scientific American magazine.

Read an article on DNA in the National Library of Medicine.

Questions –

·         In 1962, the Nobel Prize was awarded to three men for discovering the structure of DNA.
Who were they?

·         Many scientists feel a woman should have been included in the Nobel Prize for DNA.
Who was she?

Assignment – Find the answers on the Nobel Prize organization’s website.

Click here to find the men.

Click here to find the missing woman. She appears about two-thirds of the way down the page.

 

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