watch this video from youtube and describe everything you see that involves Watson and Crick and mention the future of genetics. The field of science is not like any other. The breadth and depth of information is unimaginable. As one discovery is made, it generates new questions leading to new findings. This chain produces the possibility of even more discoveries, some of which are mistakenly and randomly stumbled upon. Though we have uncovered plenty in regards to DNA and genetics, there are still more secrets hidden within what have been found. Nevertheless, the discovery of DNA’s double helical structure and the sequence of the base pairs of DNA were very crucial findings. James Watson and Francis Crick are the duo credited with finding DNA’s double helix and Craig Venter is recognized as the main scientist responsible for sequencing the first ever completed base pairs of DNA. In a series of videos, Crick and Venter were spoke about their approach to their respective research and their perspective on the future of science. According to the first video, The Secret of Life- Discovery of DNA Structure, Watson and Crick discovered the secret of life in England. “The twisted ladder of DNA molecules at the heart of all life on earth” or to simply put it, the double helix, is considered the most profound discovery in the 20th century. Post World War II, science was shifting from a military and weapon producing agent to explore the “basis of life.” Many scientist during this time period (1930s and 1940s) believed that DNA was the central mechanism in heredity because it carried genetic information. On the opposite end of this popular belief were Watson and Crick. Crick was a physicist in the military prior to picking up the task of figuring out the structure of DNA. Even though Watson and Crick were classified as scientist, the pair seemed unusual for DNA research because Watson was a young zoologist and Crick had recently been discharged from the military. However, in a strange twist of fate, thanks to Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray crystallography technology, the duo were able to discover the secret of life. As stated by The Secret of Life- Discovery of DNA Structure, Rosalind Franklin was an expert at crystallizing things and zapping it with an x-ray to make the inside visible. Despite this feat, she alone would not have been able to make a structure from a crystallized DNA due to not knowing what those deranged images represented. It required someone with a trained pair of eyes- much like Crick- to study and unzip the code. On the other hand, without her technology, Crick would not have been able to figure out the structure. This ground breaking discovery required the skills of both people. This highlights the importance of the science community because major discoveries are sometimes the result of previous and present work coming together to finally solving the puzzle. Decades later, Francis Crick was interviewed by Dr. Nick Spitzer of the University of California San Diego. During this interview titled USCD Guestbook: Francis Crick, Dr. Crick stated two of his main interest after leaving the military were “the division between the living and the non-living, which we now call molecular biology and how our brains work and it’s particularly about consciousness.” Years later, Crick would pursue the latter interest. He transitioned into figuring out how the brain and visual system worked by doing research on primates. Unlike his earlier work in molecular biology, Crick had the work of others to look over. His research consisted of connecting what was seen and what was happening in the brain during that time versus ignoring what was being seen while trying to make sense of the brain activities. His method for answers focused heavily on experimentation as he stated “the approach there was to try and not spend a lot of time on discussion on whether it might be this or that but try to narrow it down to find things that you could do with experiment.” Unlike Crick, Venter has not always had his head on his shoulder, according to the video A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life. He appears to have been a lazy student in high school and did not intend on attending college. Similarly to Crick, he was a military man; Venter was drafted to the US military during the Vietnam War. It was because of his war experience that Venter decided to enroll in college upon his return as a civilian. Initially, he aspired to go to medical school but settled in research after publishing his first paper in undergraduate. He was consumed by the “high-end research” and lost sight of his medical ambitions. To my surprise, Venter’s way of sequencing base pairs of DNA is extremely unorthodox- unlike Crick’s way of working. Instead of the traditional scientific method, which consisted of experimentation, Venter opted to randomly sequence codes. Evidently, this worked marvelously as he began to decode the human genome much quicker than other labs around the world. He and his team were able to create an algorithm that was big enough “to predict genes in the human genome.” Though Crick stumbled upon the structure of DNA through a series of mistake, he was doing intentional experimentation which, nonetheless, lead him to the results that won him a Nobel Prize. In a sense, Venter seems to be somewhat arrogant and cocky, as Dr. Bucher believes. However, I believe he’s more proud than the former desсrіptions. He mentions being an extremely lazy student in high school (which I can relate to) and now that he has accomplished what he has, I he can’t help but to display his proudness. To go from a naïve teenager who simply wanted to make a living from surfing, to being the man who is credited with sequencing the human genome is a story of success worth telling and being proud of. Therefore, it is understandable as to why he is proud and this proudness can easily be read as arrogance. Crick on the other hand seems very humble and likeable. He appears to take pride in the work he does but is not putting himself on a higher pedestal than others. He acknowledges that he was able to discover the double helical structure of DNA through a “chapter of mistakes.” Furthermore, Crick confessed that he thought he knew what he was doing in the early days of his consciousness work until he realized he had to learn from scratch. These remarks highlighted the humility which Dr. Crick exudes. The future of science, especially genetics- according to Venter- will rely on digitalization. Synthetic genomics has been digitized and now scientists are “starting with the sequence that is in the computer and building the analogue molecules. Then, those are boosted up to build a new life form.” Dr. Crick also believed science was making its way to digitalization as well because he acknowledged how much easier the new technological advancements made it to follow neurons. He was able to track neurons that were fired and the brain activities that ensued as a result of that stimulus during his consciousness experiments with primates. As previously mentioned, the breadth and depth of information in science is overwhelming but that will not serve as a deterrence to those who love this filed. There are many different scientists who approach their respective researches form a different perspective- much like Crick and Venter- but they are nonetheless contributing to scientific community. Whether they achieve their goal or not, or prove their hypothesis correct or incorrect, they are inevitably contributing to the grand scheme of things because more information is uncovered. Maybe mistakes are made that will lead to breakthrough you’d never thought you’d accomplish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v＝d7ET4bbkTm0