Nobel Prize winning scientist James D. Watson is known for his work in which area?
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- AMetallurgy
- BMeteorology
- CEnvironmental protection
- DGeneticsCorrect
Explanation
James D. Watson is a renowned molecular biologist and geneticist. He is best known for co-discovering the double helix structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 alongside Francis Crick. This discovery revolutionized the field of genetics by explaining how genetic information is stored and copied in living organisms. For this pioneering work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. Therefore, his contributions are specifically related to the field of genetics.
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