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How did Watson and Crick learn about Chargoff's rules?

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Chargaff explained his findings and research to Watson and Crick at Cambridge.

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Watson and Crick met Erwin Chargaff at Cambridge in 1952, where he explained his research and findings to them. His rule of parity, or 1:1 rule, stemmed from his discovery of guanine's equal ratio in pairing with cytosine.

Watson and Crick went in to use Chargaff's findings and the work of the researcher Rosalind Franklin as a basis for their work on DNA's double-helical structure.

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