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5. What was ethically inappropriate about Watson and Cricks use of photo 51?
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Photo 51 was actually captured by an English chemist Rosalind Franklin in 1952, and the X-ray (photo 51) depicting a strand of DNA extracted from human calf tissue.

James Watson shown the Photo 51 by his collaborator, Maurice Wilkins, without the knowledge of Rosalind Franklin. And along with Francis Crick, Watson used characteristics and features of Photo 51, together with evidence from multiple other sources, to develop the chemical model of the DNA molecule. That is why Watson and Crick's use of Photo 51 was ethically inappropriate.

However, Watson and Crick either stole Rosalind Franklin's data, or 'forgot' to credit her. Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine was awarded to Wilkins, Crick, and Watson and without mention Rosalind Franklin.

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