This highly readable, classic paper describes the Nobel-Prize-winning discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. In the paper, James Watson and Francis Crick write plainly about what was wrong ...

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are perhaps the most important molecules in cell biology, responsible for the storage and reading of genetic information that underpins all life.

Avery, O. T., McLeod, C. M., and McCarty, M., J. Exp. Med., 79, 137 (1944).

Extracted from: Nature (London, England), v. 171, no. 4356 (April 25, 1953). Names of Watson and co-author Sir Francis Crick at end of article. At head of title ...