The genes in our DNA are what decided what our phenotypes would be, or how we were going to look like. But I don’t think it is accurate to say DNA is responsible for our phenotypes, I believe everything that affects our DNA is what is responsible for our phenotype. Our DNA would be different if I had different parents or if environmental factors took place. Yes, once the DNA is set into place it cannot change (obviously). But before that moment so much can happen that the possibilities are…
that the phosphate group was on the outside of the helical structure. c) James Watson- Together with Francis they discovered the structure of DNA and that he also discovered that hydrogen bonds were the correct length and were straight. 2. All of the three scientist were interested on working on the DNA and so the were all fighting to be the one to make a model in which just two phosphate were linked together. Francis and Watson didn't believe that a woman could do such a thing just because…
The true nature of human becoming immortal For hundreds of years people have been attempting to prolong life, and essentially become immortal. There are many new technologies in this time of scientific exploration and advancement that claim to do these things. The more thought is put into the true nature of human beings, the clearer the realization seems to be that as a species, humans are inclined to challenge limits and set boundaries. In Oryx and Crake by Atwood, demonstrate that human desire…
A majority of childhood was giving librarians hell as I was striding through the corridors of Boston’s Hyde Park library, where my father consistently took me as a young boy in hopes to inspire me. As I ran around, I knock over a bookshelf and I noticed a book fell open with the picture of universal stars, . I seek to investigate more throughout future research. My father’s goal for my inspiration was reached. At age six, I have exhibited a deep interest in the study of physics. From that…
The antagonistic pleiotropy theory was proposed by Williams in 1957, whereby Williams suggest a specific type of genetic inter-trait linkage, pleiotropy, as an evolutionary explanation for senescence (Williams 2001). Pleiotropy, or inter-trait linkage exists in a way to make it difficult for the evolution process to remove an individually adverse trait, such as aging, without simultaneously removing one or more beneficial traits. To explain further, inter-trait linkage is the phenomenon where…
James Watson Without the help of James Watson, we would not know nearly as much about DNA as we do today, with his help he opened a new world of possibilities for people everywhere in knowing more and more about genetics. Today I am going to tell you a little bit about his life and his accomplishment that go along with it. James Dewey Watson was born in the city of Chicago on April 6th, 1928. As a young child, he spent most of his youth Chicago attending Horace Mann grammar school he stayed…
thought they were the most beautiful things in the world and again because of the way they had looked and seen in her eyes. Her work had appended to appear as a supporting article that was the same issue of the journal. “Upon seeing the photograph, Watson said, “My jaws feel open and my pulse began to race”, according to the author Brenda Maddox, who in 2011 wrote a book about Franklin titled “Rosalinda Franklin: The Dark Lady of…
Rosalind Franklin, but she didn't understand its importance and true meaning, so all the credit goes to James Watson and Francis Crick. The Double Helix was founded by Rosalind Franklin. In the article The Francis Crick Papers: The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953 it states that, “Her evidence demonstrated that the two sugar-phosphate backbones lay on the outside of the molecule, confirmed Watson and Crick's conjecture that the backbones formed a double helix, and revealed to Crick that…
DNA contained genetic material because it was not seen as complex due to the fact not much was known about it yet, so many presumed proteins were the genetic material of life. It was not until scholars such as Frederick Griffith, Meselson-Stahl, James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Avery, McCarty, Erwin Chargaff and many more conducted experiments that would expose astonishing discovering that will lead to the understanding of DNA also known as the Race for DNA. It…
that she took. (Kindersley 34) Ms. Franklin made many scientific discoveries during her life time. she obtained information that helped other scientists. She also discovered a second type of DNA. Using her photos without permission from Franklin, Watson and his research partner, Crick, constructed the first DNA Model. The density of DNA was found out by Rosalind too. Later in her life, Rosalind began to work on the polio virus in 1956. (Rosalind Elsie Franklin…