Rosalind Franklin was researching using X-Ray Crystallography.
Rosalind Franklin
molecules
A very large organic compound made up of chains of smaller molecules is a polymer.
The more initiator molecules there are, the more chains get started. Since the chains compete for monomers, if there are 5 times as many chains obviously they will be shorter on average.
The simplest organic molecules are hydrocarbon chains. methane CH4, ethane H3C-CH3, Propane H3C-CH2-CH3, etc....
Rosalind Franklin
Maurice Wilkins & Rosalind Franklin : they developed a high quality x-ray diffraction photographs of strands of DNA. these photographs suggested that the DNA molecule resembled a tightly coiled helix and and was composed of 2 or 3 chains of nucleotides .
Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available to proteins. Rosalind Franklin The results suggest a helical structure (which must be very closely packed) containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside. Rosalind Franklin We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest. Rosalind Franklin While the biological properties of deoxypentose nucleic acid suggest a molecular structure containing great complexity, X-ray diffraction studies described here... show the basic molecular configuration has great simplicity. Rosalind Franklin You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment. Rosalind Franklin yHU W3lC0M3 FR0M Jazmine Bell
polymers
molecules
spiral chains
spiral chains
Chains of amino acids are referred to as polypeptides. Proteins are created from one or more of these polypeptide molecules.
A very large organic compound made up of chains of smaller molecules is a polymer.
polymers
Maltose.
They can be chains, rings, or branched structures.