DISCOVERY OF DNA AND RNA

No one has actually seen the DNA and RNA our knowledge of
the structure of DNA comes from a theoretical model put
forward by scientists Watson and Crick. Watson and Crick
teamed up and carried out their research at Cambridge
university.
Rosalind Franklin and her assistant Maurice Wilkins were also
working on researching the structure of the DNA. She
realised DNA was some sort of double helix from X-ray
diffraction pictures she took.
Watson and Crick continued their research and found that
DNA contained similar amounts of adenine and thymine and
also similar amount of cytosine and guanine gave them the
idea of complementary base pairing. The most significant
aspect of their findings was that the complementary pairing
of bases allows DNA to make exact copies of itself.
In 1953 Watson and Cricks put forward their model of DNA
which indicated that it was a double helix with
complementary base pairs.