Watson and Crick's 1953 article describes the answer to a previously fundamental mystery about living organisms, namely how the chemical structure of DNA was used to store genetic instructions and how it could be passed from generation to generation.
Watson and Crick's 1953 article describes the answer to a fundamental mystery about living organisms. What is hidden in the title is that Rosalind Franklin's discovery of the chemical structure of DNA finally revealed to Watson and Crick how genetic instructions are stored inside organisms and passed from generation to generation.