The document discusses the key discoveries in DNA structure and replication. Frederick Griffith and Oswald Avery discovered that DNA, not protein, was the genetic material. Hershey and Chase showed that viruses inject DNA, not proteins, into bacteria. Chargaff determined DNA had equal ratios of bases and a double helix structure. Franklin discovered DNA was a helix, and Watson and Crick used this evidence to propose the double helix model of DNA structure. DNA consists of nucleotides with nitrogen bases that pair according to rules. Replication involves unwinding DNA with helicase, and polymerase adding nucleotides to copy the strands.