14. One of the most critical pieces of evidence to the discovery of DNA structure was

A. its composition of four different nucleotides.
B. its mode of replication.
C. an X-ray diffraction pattern suggesting a double helix shape.
D. the backbone containing sugar-phosphate linkages.
E. the covalent bonding between different nucleotides.


C. an X-ray diffraction pattern suggesting a double helix shape.

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