On April 25 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick published a

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published a paper describing the structure of DNA. In the original 1-page paper, they made a mistake. What was the mistake in the paper?

Solution

In that paper, they mentioned the name of DNA as deoxyribose nucleic acid which is known as deoxyribonucleic acid. The other mistake as they mentioned there it is impossible to make a DNA strand with ribose sugar but in nature, it exists in the form of double stranded RNA.