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Rosalind Franklin was a chemist who made the first DNA structure in 1953. A DNA model is a model of someone's DNA. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid.A DNA strand is used to figure out a person’s physical and mental information. There are two forms of DNA an “A” form and a “B” form. (Franklin 2015) Franklin found this out by putting a DNA fiber under a x-ray machine Franklin refined herself. Franklin and Maurice Wilkins used Franklin’s x-ray photo called photograph 51 and Wilkins published first and so he got a nobel peace prize in 1962. (Franklin 2015) Franklin was then given some of the credit and was written about in the article of the newspaper.

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