Who observed the constant ratios between Adenine and Thymine and Guanine and Cytosine in double stranded DNA?

Who observed the constant ratios between Adenine and Thymine and Guanine and Cytosine in double stranded DNA?
  1. James Watson
  2. Francis Crick
  3. Maurice Wilkins
  4. Erwin Chargaff

Solution

The proposition of Double Helix model was also based on the observation of Erwin Chargaff that for a double stranded DNA, the ratios between Adenine and Thymine and Guanine and Cytosine are constant and equal one.

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