Elementary Dr. Watson

J. D. Watson in his book, The Double Helix, blamed J. N. Davidson’s text The biochemistry of nucleic acids for Watson initially using the wrong formulae of the nitrogenous bases in his and F. Crick’s quest for the DNA structure. A closer look at Davidson’s text, however, reveals that most of the structures were correctly drawn the only exception being guanosine represented in the enol form.