James D. Watson

A majority of childhood was giving librarians hell as I was striding through the corridors of Boston’s Hyde Park library, where my father consistently took me as a young boy in hopes to inspire me. As I ran around, I knock over a bookshelf and I noticed a book fell open with the picture of universal stars, . I seek to investigate more throughout future research. My father’s goal for my inspiration was reached. At age six, I have exhibited a deep interest in the study of physics. From that…

The antagonistic pleiotropy theory was proposed by Williams in 1957, whereby Williams suggest a specific type of genetic inter-trait linkage, pleiotropy, as an evolutionary explanation for senescence (Williams 2001). Pleiotropy, or inter-trait linkage exists in a way to make it difficult for the evolution process to remove an individually adverse trait, such as aging, without simultaneously removing one or more beneficial traits. To explain further, inter-trait linkage is the phenomenon where…

James Watson Without the help of James Watson, we would not know nearly as much about DNA as we do today, with his help he opened a new world of possibilities for people everywhere in knowing more and more about genetics. Today I am going to tell you a little bit about his life and his accomplishment that go along with it. James Dewey Watson was born in the city of Chicago on April 6th, 1928. As a young child, he spent most of his youth Chicago attending Horace Mann grammar school he stayed…

thought they were the most beautiful things in the world and again because of the way they had looked and seen in her eyes. Her work had appended to appear as a supporting article that was the same issue of the journal. “Upon seeing the photograph, Watson said, “My jaws feel open and my pulse began to race”, according to the author Brenda Maddox, who in 2011 wrote a book about Franklin titled “Rosalinda Franklin: The Dark Lady of…

Rosalind Franklin, but she didn't understand its importance and true meaning, so all the credit goes to James Watson and Francis Crick. The Double Helix was founded by Rosalind Franklin. In the article The Francis Crick Papers: The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953 it states that, “Her evidence demonstrated that the two sugar-phosphate backbones lay on the outside of the molecule, confirmed Watson and Crick's conjecture that the backbones formed a double helix, and revealed to Crick that…

DNA contained genetic material because it was not seen as complex due to the fact not much was known about it yet, so many presumed proteins were the genetic material of life. It was not until scholars such as Frederick Griffith, Meselson-Stahl, James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Avery, McCarty, Erwin Chargaff and many more conducted experiments that would expose astonishing discovering that will lead to the understanding of DNA also known as the Race for DNA. It…

Genetic Engineering Genetic Engineering is the modification of something’s genetic makeup by using artificial means. There are many benefits of which this could be used. Many of these are not necessary which is why there should be limits. The people should be allowed to use genetic engineering but the government should limit the use to only be allowed for serious medical reasons. The reasons why genetic engineering should not be allowed for anything but medical purposes is that the rich would…

Wilkins, Watson, and Crick received the Nobel Prize, but in reality, was Rosalind Franklin’s data and photos of DNA that led to their discovery. They couldn’t have done it without her x-ray crystallography. Regardless of the discovery has had serious significance…

A small village in a rural area struggles with crop failure that affects everyone. The children are unable to focus in school on the topic as their stomachs rumble. Families struggle to put food on the table, farmer’s fields are bare of life. In a large city fresh food is scarce and overpriced, the frost came early this year. Without genetically engineering food, harsh weather conditions, and sudden catastrophes are able to wipe out thousands of necessary crops. Though the usage of genetic…

Genetic engineering has been prevalent in society for hundreds of years, but most people just aren’t aware of how tremendous of an impact it has on people’s daily lives. Most of the produce that is sold in supermarkets has been genetically modified so much that it does not resemble an unmodified version of the same fruit or vegetable. Similarly, manipulating genetically modified bacteria into providing the needed insulin produces the insulin that diabetics take to regulate their blood sugar.…