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प्रश्न

Name the scientist who put forward the most popular model of DNA.

उत्तर

James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the double helix or spiral staircase structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1962.

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