James D. Watson
DNA is the most famous molecule that is found in the world today, though it was quite a late discovery in the scientific world. [5] James Watson was one of the geneticists that helped discover the structure of DNA.
James Watson was an Academic, Biologist, Geneticist, Zoologist, and a scientist. He was born on the 6th of April 1928 in Chicago and is now 87 years old. Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping discover the double-helix structure of DNA. His partner in this discovery was Francis Crick. After he won the Nobel Prize, he went on to work in cancer research and mapping the human genome. Recently he has been scrutinised for some of the claims he had made, ranging from obesity to intelligence based …show more content…
It has helped us make further discoveries on DNA and has helped us better understand who we are. Because of their work many more break throughs have been able to occur. Such as a study that was done in 2011, which gave us a bigger insight to the aborigine ancestry through the genomes of an ancient aborigine man. The DNA study confirms that ‘Aboriginal Australians are one of the oldest living populations in the world.’ [3]
I turns out that their ancestors evolved on the continent of Africa and were the first modern people to arrive in Asia. The work also confirmed that they have been living in Australia for about 70,000 years. [3] The genetic sequences show who they would have been related to through the certain order of the DNA. The patterns have split through the ages but now scientists can track where the genes split and where people have descended from. This would not have been possible without Watson’s and Crick’s …show more content…
James D. Watson Biography, Biography.com Editors, http://www.biography.com/people/james-d-watson-9525139#synopsisv, March 16 2016, A&E Television networks.
2. James Watson- Biographical. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Prize Media AB 2014. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/watson-bio.html, Web. 17 March 2016.
3. Aboriginal Genome Reveals New Insights into Early Humans, Australian Science Media Centre (Ed.), Published November 2011, http://www.australasianscience.com.au/article/issue-november-2011/aboriginal-genome-reveals-new-insights-early-humans.html , accessed 16 March 2016.
4. James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2010-2016, http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/biomolecules/dna/watson-crick-wilkins-franklin.aspx accessed 18 March 2016.
5. DNA, the Language of evolution: Francis Crick & James Watson, Understanding Evolution, n.d. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_22, accessed 18 March