The Double Helix Book Review

When it comes to science, I always feel like I have the upper hand on finding an enjoyable book, article or TV show because I am really interested in learning about science and I based my major on that. When I saw the list of books we had the choose from, I had no idea what book I wanted to read. But when I read the title The Double Helix, it looked like an informative book that will help you understand the study of biology. When I first started to read it, I wasn't too sure what I was going to think of it, but as I started to read it I realized that I picked the right book It's serious at times, but also humorous. Instead of being a boring read it makes the reader laugh and have an actual ending to look forward to.
This book is about how James …show more content…
DNA is orders the body to make two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, also tell the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. DNA is the root of all genetics. The focus of this book was the discovery of DNA. DNA is the most important thing in Biology. DNA informs scientists about our bodies and on how we can cure and evolve them. This is what scientist base all their studies on every day because they are important to the future of our world as we know it. Without the DNA structure, we would not have all the studies that exist today. For instance, if there was no DNA we would not even be here. Biology is very significant in everyday life and without it, we would not have all the medicine and knowledge we have learned and gained the world we live in. This book explains how all the studies that was done taught us what we know …show more content…
The key scientists involved in the discovery of the structure of DNA were Francis Crick, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins (Nobel Prize). In April 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the secret of life (Crick). The DNA was called secret of life because it had a variety of functions that carries the blue print that gives instructions to build an organism. The path for a human is written in code that is three billion letters long. Like other scientists of the time, Watson and Crick believed that there is a script that told cells what to do. Unlike other scientists, Watson and Crick expected to find the script in DNA (Pray). During that time, scientists knew that chromosomes were made of two distinct elements: Proteins and DNA. Other scientists expected to find script in proteins because they carried out many functions of the body. Watson and Crick were focused on DNA because they thought they could work out how atoms of the four chemicals in DNA were arranged, so they might be able to work out what the function was (Pray). Some scientists had presumed that DNA would have a helical structure, but it was not confirmed yet. There was also disagreement of whether the structure of DNA single, double or triple helix (Nobel

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