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Name the scientists who described the molecular structure of DNA.


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  1. In, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson described the molecular structure of DNA as a “ double helix”.
  2. They won the Nobel prize for the same in 1962.
  3. DNA is a large molecule composed of two linear strands that run opposite to each other and twist together to form a double helix.

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