Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that make up the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that comprise the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

A DNA double helix illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute on May 15, 2012. [REUTERS/YONHAP] Watson, Crick and the overshadowed Franklin The discovery of DNA’s ...

Focusing on the schematic illustration in a ... the template DNA strands (here the lagging strand), forcing open the DNA helix ahead of the replication fork. The helicase exposes the bases ...

The double helix is a description of the molecular shape of a double-stranded DNA molecule. In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson first described the molecular structure of DNA, which they ...