battledore (plural battledores) 1  A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton. 2  The racket used in this game. ( 3 obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet. ( obsolete) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
Watson is a U.S. molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. In 1998, the Modern Library placed The Double Helix at number 7 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century.
The term entered popular culture with the publication in 1968 of The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, by James Watson. The DNA double helix polymer of nucleic acid, held together by nucleotides which base pair together. In B-DNA, the most common double helical structure found in nature, the double helix is right-handed with about 10â10.5 base pairs per turn. This translates into about 20-21 nucleotides per turn.