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Early, flawed dna models proposed by watson and crick and by linus pauling correctly described which property of dna? early, flawed dna models proposed by watson and crick and by linus pauling correctly described which property of dna?

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Work by Crick, Watson, and Pauling showed that DNA is helical in structure. However they were wrong in that they proposed DNA to be a triple helix with phosphates on the inside of the helix. But we now know that DNA is a double helix with phosphates on the outside of the helix.
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