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In what year did Watson and Crick describe the double-helix structure of DNA?
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In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their paper "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", which described the double-helix structure of DNA. This discovery was a major breakthrough in the understanding of genetics and led to the development of the field of molecular biology.
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