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Alfred Sturtevant
Alfred developed the firest genetic map of chromosomes. He also discovered the first reparable gene defect, and unequal crossing-over. -
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Morgan discovered the Drosophila genome. He adopted the term gene and made a hypothesis for sex-linked traits. -
Fredrick Griffith
Griffith discovered the transforming principle and used strains of streptoccous pneunomia bacterium to prevent pneunomia. -
Jean Brachet
Brachet showed DNA was found in chromosomes and that RNA was present in the cytoplasm of all cells. Both types of nucleic acid occur in plant and animal cells. -
Beadle and Tatum
Tatum and Beadle discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. -
Albert Levan and Joe Tijo
They discovered that humans had forty-six chromosomes instead of forty-eight. -
Meselson-Stahl
An experiment that supported that DNA replication was semi-conservative. -
Howard Temin
Temin discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase or RNA directed DNA polymerase. He recieved a Nobel Prize in 1975 for this experiment. -
Walter Fiers
Fiers demonstrated the physical,covalently,closed circulatory of bacteriophage. He also developed the complete nucleotide sequence of a gene and of a viral genome. -
Fredrick Sanger
He developed rapid DNA sequencing. -
Yeast
600 scientists finished sequencing the genome of bakers yeast. -
Drosophila Genome
The Berkeley Project and Celera sequenced the Drosophila Genome. -
Arabidopsis
The flower plant arabidopsis was sequenced. -
Zebrafish Genome
The Sanger Institute sequenced the genome of a zebra fish (banio rerio) -
Mouse
The public and private efforts were done to get the mouse genome sequenced. -
Rat
The Rat genome sequencing project consortirium. It will probably never be finished due to gaps. -
Dog
(Canis Lupus Famillaris) Shotgun sequencing was done to sequence the genome of a dog.
