Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that make up the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

Thirteen Nobel Prize winners gathered at UNESCO headquarters in Paris for a symposium to mark the fortieth anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Francis Crick and James Watson, who in ...

The double helix is a description of the molecular shape of a double-stranded DNA molecule. In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson first described the molecular structure of DNA, which they ...

A DNA double helix is made of two strands running in opposite directions. Each strand is made of four bases -- A, T, C, and G -- that pair up in specific ways to form rungs along the strands.

According to the conservative replication model, the entire original DNA double helix serves as a template for a new double helix, such that each round of cell division produces one daughter cell ...