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Watson and Crick.

Using cardboard cutouts they recognized the helical shape of DNA and the complimentary base pairing rule. That base A pairs with T and Base C pairs with G. They used information from Rosalind Franklin (who determined the width of DNA and the helical shape) and Chargoff (who discovered the equality rule). The structure of this model developed by Watson and Crick suggested a replication mechanism.

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