NEETZoologyMolecular Basis of Inheritance
Select the incorrect statement for the given figure.
Options
- AOne of the hallmarks of James Watson and Francis Crick proposition was base pairing between the two strands of
- BJames Watson and Francis Crick proposition was also based on the observation of Erwin Chargaff that for a doub
- CThe base pairing confers a very unique property to the polynucleotide chains.
- DThe polynucleotide chains are said to be complementary to each other, and therefore if the sequence of bases i
Correct answer
D. The polynucleotide chains are said to be complementary to each other, and therefore if the sequence of bases i
Step-by-step solution
It was only in 1953 that James Watson and Francis Crick, based on the X-ray diffraction data produced by Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, proposed a very simple but famous Double Helix model for the structure of DNA. One of the hallmarks of their proposition was base pairing between the two strands of polynucleotide chains. However, this proposition was also based on the observation of Erwin Chargaff that for a double stranded DNA, the ratios between Adenine and Thymine and Guanine and Cytosine are constant a