Who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953?

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James Watson and Francis Crick
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Friedrich Miescher
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Rosalind Franklin
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Oswald Avery

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The structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick. They built on the work of other scientists, including Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray diffraction images of DNA were crucial to their understanding of its double helix structure.