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OCR: The Code of Life -ife ife One of the greatest puzzles of 20th Century science was how genetic information is passed down the generations from parents to children. Even after it slowly became clear that a substance called DNA was responsible nobody had any idea how the information was held. The nature of this fundamental code of life was finally broken by Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wiggins. They received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for establishing the structure of DNA It turned out to bea kind lof twisted I ladder with the information coded into rungs made up of only four different kinds of chemical. codec differen