What did Rosalind Franklin do when she saw Watson and Crick’s first model? Why?

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What did Rosalind Franklin do when she saw Watson and Crick’s first model? Why?

 

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After seeing Franklin's x-ray images of DNA and her report on DNA's symmetry, Watson and Crick built a revised model of DNA's structure: a double helix with sugar-phosphate backbones running in opposite directions.

 

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