The famous team of molecular biologists, james watson and francis crick, were not the first scientists who attempted to decipher the structure of dna, but it was their collaboration in the early 1950s that showed how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together.

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The DNA structure had been studied for years, and there were even some theories, like the three-stranded DNA structure. Nevertheless, until Watson and Crick started to develop the actual structure of the DNA, with the help of Rosalind Franklin's pictures, there wasn't a strong theory that could explain some of the DNA properties.

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