Francis Crick
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DNA Structure and Central Dogma

Crick co-discovered DNA's double helix structure and formulated the "central dogma"—how genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins.This framework explained how genes work at the molecular level.His insights enabled genetic engineering, medicine, forensics, and our understanding of how life's instructions are stored, read, and executed.

Francis Crick

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