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Which scientist's work led to the discovery of the base pairing rule in DNA?

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Rosalind Franklin Erwin Chargaff Correct Watson and Crick Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty

Erwin Chargaff discovered that in DNA, the amount of adenine equals thymine and the amount of guanine equals cytosine.

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