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Franklin's X-Ray Crystallography

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The double helical model of the DNA was proposed by Watson and Crick based on that what data produced by Wilkins and Franklin?

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Hybridization

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DNA sequencing

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Southern blotting

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X-ray diffraction

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Both A and D

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Solution

The correct option is D X-ray diffraction
Watson and Crick's proposed model of DNA was based on the data given from various experiments and important X-ray crystallography work by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins

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(iii) Griffiths transformation experiment
(iv) Meselson and Stahls experiment.

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