Model Building by Watson & Crick | |
Watson
and Crick could form hypotheses about DNA's structure by building a physical model of how its atoms fit together. |
They had the machine
shop of the Cavendish Lab at Cambridge University make copies of nucleotide and fit them together via their chemical properties. |
Figure 16.1 on page 314 of Campbell Bio 11e | Fig 13.6 on page 272 of Life by Sadava et al 11e |