Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305389892
Author: Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14, Problem 10TYK
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The data that was available to Watson and Crick, other than Chargaff’s data, which suggested that adenine–guanine and cytosine–thymine pairs do not form normally.

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Watson and Crick proposed the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) model, according to which a DNA molecule consists of two chains of polynucleotides wound around each other in the form of a double helix. Each monomer in the chain consists of deoxyribose, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base. There are four nitrogenous bases in DNA, of which two are purines and two are pyrimidines.

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