DNA: Cooperation And Competition
The structure of DNA: Cooperation and competition.
This discovery brought together information from many disciplines and many researchers to answer one of the most fundamental questions in life science. Some scientific discoveries are a bit like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. Many different researchers discover important bits of evidence. In the 19th century, the Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, discovered basic patterns of inheritance.
By the 1940s and 50s, scientists were getting closer to a physical explanation of how parents pass on traits to their offspring. New technology had made it possible to observe smaller structures than ever before. Biologists had found that genetic instructions are carried on parts of the cell known as chromosomes, and chemists had discovered that these chromosomes are made up of two components: proteins and DNA. …show more content…
X-ray diffraction, developed in the first half of the 20th century, was one of the new technologies that made solving the structure of DNA possible.
In this way, the evidence and hypothesis relating to the structure of DNA entered the scientific literature and became available for other researchers to build
on.
Science is too big a job and involves too many complex ideas for any one person to tackle a problem in complete isolation.
This discovery brought together information from many disciplines and many researchers to answer one of the most fundamental questions in life science. Some scientific discoveries are a bit like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. Many different researchers discover important bits of evidence. In the 19th century, the Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, discovered basic patterns of inheritance.
By the 1940s and 50s, scientists were getting closer to a physical explanation of how parents pass on traits to their offspring. New technology had made it possible to observe smaller structures than ever before. Biologists had found that genetic instructions are carried on parts of the cell known as chromosomes, and chemists had discovered that these chromosomes are made up of two components: proteins and DNA. …show more content…
X-ray diffraction, developed in the first half of the 20th century, was one of the new technologies that made solving the structure of DNA possible.
In this way, the evidence and hypothesis relating to the structure of DNA entered the scientific literature and became available for other researchers to build
on.
Science is too big a job and involves too many complex ideas for any one person to tackle a problem in complete isolation.