Module 16: Double Helix Movie Night
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- 24610
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Read the introduction and the “Right Timing” pages of The structure of DNA: Cooperation and Competition. After reading this, you’ll need to watch the movie Double Helix and respond to the following questions.
- Describe how the following folk contributed to our current understanding of DNA structure:
- Linus Pauling:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- Erwin Chargaff:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins:_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- James Watson and Francis Crick:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- At least one other person (___________________________________)_______________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- List some pieces of information that were critical to the process that led Watson and Crick to their momentous insight. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- Rosalind Franklin died in 1958 from ovarian cancer. The Nobel Prize is never awarded posthumously (to people who have already died). In addition, a Nobel Prize is only awarded to a maximum of 3 people at one time. Imagine Franklin had NOT died. Who do you think would have gotten the award in 1962? Why? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- What did you think of this movie? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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- Biology Labs. Authored by: Wendy Riggs. Provided by: College of the Redwoods. Located at: http://www.redwoods.edu%20. License: CC BY: Attribution
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- The DNA Double Helix Discovery. Authored by: HHMI BioInteractive Video. Located at: https://youtu.be/1vm3od_UmFg. License: All Rights Reserved. License Terms: Standard YouTube License