Which of the following characteristics of the structure of DNA was determined directly from X-ray diffraction photographs of crystallized DNA?

A. the double helical structure
B. the length of a given DNA molecule
C. the frequency of A versus T nucleotides
D. the sequence of nucleotides


Ans: A. the double helical structure

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