Molecular structure of nucleic acids

In April 1953, James Watson [5] and Francis Crick [6] published "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" or "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid," in the journal Nature. In the article, Watson and Crick propose a novel structure for deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. In 1944, Oswald T. Avery and his group at Rockefeller University [7] in New York City, New York published experimental evidence that DNA contained the biological factors called genes [8] that dictate how organisms grow and develop. Scientists did not know how DNAás function led to the passage of genetic information from cell to cell, or organism to organism. The model that Watson and Crick presented connected the concept of genes [8] to heredity, growth, and development. As of 2018, most scientists accept Watson and Crick ́s model of DNA presented in the article. For their work on DNA, Watson and Crick shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [9] with Maurice Wilkins.