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This week, Megan tells Debbie a story about the woman who helped discover DNA, and you’ve probably never heard of her. Then Debbie takes Megan down a Naked and Afraid rabbit hole.

 

A famous scientist

A type of art

A number 1-50

A number 1-5

A common item in your living room

A power in science fiction stories

An animal found in a large city

An author in the late 1800s

A type of mental illness

An extended family member

 

Sources:

 

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04966-w#:~:text=Exclusion%20from%20authorship%20is%20common,effect%20size%20=%20%E2%88%920.0984

https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/francis-crick-rosalind-franklin-james-watson-and-maurice-wilkins/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rosalind-franklin-dna-structure-watson-crick

https://historycollection.com/women-who-had-their-work-stolen-from-them-by-men/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/06/the-secret-of-life-by-howard-markel-review-science-and-misogyny