
Double Helix
How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life
Danielle Smith-Llera(Author)
Capstone Press
Published on 1. August 2017
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-0-7565-5642-6 (ISBN)
Description
"To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, it confirmed their guess of deoxyribonucleic acid's structure. In 1953 the pair was racing toward solving the mystery of DNA's structure before other scientists could beat them to it. They and others believed that finding the simple structure of the DNA molecule would answer a great mystery, how do organisms live, grow, develop, and survive, generation after generation? Photo 51 and subsequent models based on the photo would prove to be the key to unlocking the secret of life."--Publisher's website.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Mankato, MN
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Kindergarten, Reading Age: From 10 to 12 years, Interest Age: From 10 to 12 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 264 mm
Width: 239 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7565-5642-6 (9780756556426)
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Person
Danielle Smith-Llera grew up in coastal Virginia, hearing unforgettable tales about her Mexican and Irish ancestors. She first moved overseas to teach in international schools in Hungary and Brazil. Life in the U.S. Foreign Service has taken her around the world to live in India, Jamaica, Romania, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Washington, DC. She loves sharing stories--fiction, nonfiction, and a mixture of both--in classrooms, museum exhibits, and, of course, books.