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Explain how the discoveries by Rosalind Franklin helped Watson and Crick build an accurate model of DNA.How can DNA be used to help solve a crime?

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Rosalind Franklin had taken the first picture showing the structure of DNA, called the double helix. This helped confirm what Watson and Crick had thought, thus leading them to make the first accurate model. DNA can be used to solve a crime because it can prove a certain person did something. EX: finding hair and who it belongs to/ finding finger prints and who they belong to.

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