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by tempestn 1647 days ago
What exactly what the elementary mistake?

Edit: ah, answered in another comment. It was this part:

> Crick and Watson certainly didn't discover DNA as the substrate for Mendelian inheritance, that was known long before. They (in collaboration with Rosalind "don't talk to me about this woman" Franklin) discovered its 3D structure.