Hey, I know my post is late again.... The end of the term is extremely stressful and it's hard to have time to do everything. But hey! I'm posting now aren't I? Enjoy my book review on DNA
Imagine that you are just on the verge of discovering the structure of DNA. Something that has never even been thought of before. You suggest that the structure could be a double helix; no one believes you though. This was the story for James D. Watson. Francis Crick and he worked together on the secret of DNA.
James D. Watson is going to college to get his PHD. While studying he meets Francis Crick. Together they both start working on discovering the structure of DNA. They work with Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin; during their research they come across many difficulties that slow down their discovery of the structure of DNA. In the end they come up the the double helix. It fits all of the equations and after some time it is quickly accepted, but not until they build a model. These are the main discoverers of the DNA structure.
Originally this is not a book that I would have read on my own. Seeing as I don't care all that much about DNA, and I really don't read science books. There was one problem that really bugged me in this particular book though, the grammar. His spelling is okay, but his grammar is atrocious! The other issue I had was that it was just a story. There was nothing interesting in this story, at least not to me, a 15 year old girl who usually reads mystery stories. This book was okay, it was his telling of how the structure of DNA was discovered so I guess it is not meant to be interesting, it's meant to tell how this came to be.
"It was certainly better to imagine myself becoming famous than maturing into a stifled academic who had never risked a thought." The thing I did like about this book was some of the quotes, like the one I just quoted. He went against what everyone told him to do, he even lost his funding in pursuit of this. That is something that inspires me. Going for what you believe in even when every one is against you. "A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." I like this quote because it is so true! In this book it says that the reason many of the other scientists who had been studying DNA for a long time didn't discover it is because they weren't open to the idea of a double helix. They thought that it was to unsteady and thought that it had to at least be a triple helix.
I would recommend this book to any one who wants to understand more about DNA, specifically and scholars, or scientists. When reading this book I learned a little about a lot of topics such as, chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, and crystallography.This book was okay, but I will NEVER read this again.
Imagine that you are just on the verge of discovering the structure of DNA. Something that has never even been thought of before. You suggest that the structure could be a double helix; no one believes you though. This was the story for James D. Watson. Francis Crick and he worked together on the secret of DNA.
James D. Watson is going to college to get his PHD. While studying he meets Francis Crick. Together they both start working on discovering the structure of DNA. They work with Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin; during their research they come across many difficulties that slow down their discovery of the structure of DNA. In the end they come up the the double helix. It fits all of the equations and after some time it is quickly accepted, but not until they build a model. These are the main discoverers of the DNA structure.
Originally this is not a book that I would have read on my own. Seeing as I don't care all that much about DNA, and I really don't read science books. There was one problem that really bugged me in this particular book though, the grammar. His spelling is okay, but his grammar is atrocious! The other issue I had was that it was just a story. There was nothing interesting in this story, at least not to me, a 15 year old girl who usually reads mystery stories. This book was okay, it was his telling of how the structure of DNA was discovered so I guess it is not meant to be interesting, it's meant to tell how this came to be.
"It was certainly better to imagine myself becoming famous than maturing into a stifled academic who had never risked a thought." The thing I did like about this book was some of the quotes, like the one I just quoted. He went against what everyone told him to do, he even lost his funding in pursuit of this. That is something that inspires me. Going for what you believe in even when every one is against you. "A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." I like this quote because it is so true! In this book it says that the reason many of the other scientists who had been studying DNA for a long time didn't discover it is because they weren't open to the idea of a double helix. They thought that it was to unsteady and thought that it had to at least be a triple helix.
I would recommend this book to any one who wants to understand more about DNA, specifically and scholars, or scientists. When reading this book I learned a little about a lot of topics such as, chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, and crystallography.This book was okay, but I will NEVER read this again.
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