Ascientist shines ultraviolet light on a colony of blue colored bacteria. she then places colonies of the bacteria in separate petri dishes. after allowing the bacteria to replicate for several generations, the scientist observes that some of the dishes now contain colonies with purple and red colored bacteria. what can be concluded from this observation?

American scientist, linus pauling, was one of many scientists racing to discover the molecular structure of dna. pauling initially thought that the molecule was a triple helix. later, james watson and francis crick unveiled their double helix model, which turned out to be an accurate description of the molecule's shape. why did watson and crick succeed when pauling failed?