Monday, March 12, 2012

DNA

DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is bascially your genetic makeup or what makes you you and seperates you from the person next to you.  Like the DNA in somebodys blood is the same as the DNA in their skin cells and saliva.



Without Dna it would be really had to tell who committed a crime. But if somebody does commit a crime any skinflakes or blood left behind makes it easy to tell who did it.






Rosalind Elsie Franklin


Rosalind was born on July 25, 1920 and died on April 16, 1958. She was a  British biophysicist who made great contributions to the study of the fine molecular structures of DNARNAvirusescoal and graphite.Rosalind is known for her work on X-ray diffraction of DNA which led to the discovery of  DNA's double helix.






Maurice Wilkins 


Maurice was born on December 15, 1916 and died October 5, 2004. He was born in New Zealand and later became an English physicist and Molecular biologist. He helped in  X-ray diffraction, and  the development of radar.








James Dewey Watson




He was born on April 6, 1928 in U.S.A. He is a Molecular biologist he is the co-discover of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. He was awarded the nobel prize for physiology. 




Francis Harry Compton Crick

Francis Crick was born on  June 8,1916 and died on July 28,2004. He was a english Molucular Biologist and Nueroscientist. He worked with James D. Watson on the structure of the DNA molucule in 1953. Won the Nobel prize for physciology along with James.

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  1. good blog I liked how you said who the people in the pictures were I also liked you information but I think you could have had a better intro so good job.

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