Answer:
Yes, I agree that the discovery of DNA model by Watson and Crick took help from the work of many other scientists which were not credited with the discovery as much as both of them were credited.
Explanation:
One of the major breakthroughs made in the discovery of DNA structure was the work of a female scientist, Rosalind Franklin who did X-ray crystallography according to which DNA was helical in shape. Watson and Crick took strong support from this theory and proved that DNA was helical in shape. However, she was a perfectionist and she had not published her work yet while the Watson and Crick were fast enough to do so. Before that Watson and Crick while working independently formulated incorrect DNA models in which bases were placed outside while phosphate groups were outside. However, Rosalind Franklin's work was of substantial help to both of them. There was another colleagues of Franklin, Maurice Wilkins who was working with Franklin in doing X-ray studies. n 1962 Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly honored with the Nobel Prize in medicine for their model of DNA in 1953 but she was not nominated for Nobel price because it could only be shared by three scientists maximum and Franklin was died by that time too.
Therefore, i think it was not fair with Franklin that she never received the credit of the work which she did tirelessly and which became basis of modern DNA model.
Hope it helps!
No, it is not fair that Watson and Crick were only credited with the discovery of the DNA model.
Watson and Crick proposed a model of DNA in 1953 which is semi-conservative in nature. This model of DNA has a double helix that is bound together with the help of units known as bases.
During the time of Watson and Crick, Erwin Chargaff proposed the rule of base pairing which is also seen in Watson and Crick's model of DNA. According to him, the amount of adenine is always equal to the amount of thymine, and the amount of guanine is always equal to the amount of cytosine.
[A] = [T] and [G] = [C]
Therefore, Watson and Crick were not the only ones who were credited with the discovery of the DNA model.
To learn more about Watson and Crick's model of DNA, refer to the link:
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