The molecular model of DNA which suggests the basic mechanism replication was proposed by?

1. James Watson and Francis Crick
2. Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel
3. Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
4. Albert Einstein and Max Planck

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the double-helix model of DNA structure, based on X-ray diffraction data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. Their model immediately suggested a mechanism for how DNA could replicate itself: the two strands separate, and each serves as a template for a new complementary strand.