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Measured fact

DNA is a long twisted ladder that holds instructions for a living thing.

A honey bee on a flower
Tanner Smida. CC BY 4.0.

How we know

An X-ray picture and many later tests showed that twisted shape.

Rosalind Franklin
Photo credits

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