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Successful species could end up battling for limited resources
Proved by Thomas Robert Malthus, agriculture couldn't keep up with the increasing birthrate from food security in agriculture. -
Evolution is a "lottery," nature always wins
Charles Darwin read on Malthus and in 1831 and finished his evolution book in 1859 where he discovered this -
Living things have dominant and recessive traits
Gregor Mendel used only pea plants to find this discovery. -
Sees something in the nucleus of cells
Fredrick Miescher guesses what he sees in cells has something to do with heredity, this must be important if we have thousands of trillions of cells and there are these "meters" in each one of them. -
Suggests chromosomes are connected to Mendel's ideas
Theodor Boveri looks at chromosomes under a microscope and makes his theory. -
Proves Mendels and Mieschers ideas
Thomas Hunt Morgan proves that chromosomes are linked to heredity and dominant and recessive traits. -
Breaks down DNA
Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene figures out that DNA is just four nucleotides: C A T and G. -
Figures out DNA
Edwin Chargaff discovers that A's are always linked to T's and C's are always linked to G's in DNA. -
DNA and its genes relate to infectious inheritance
Oswald Avery is said to be most deserving of his Nobel prize but never got one for his proven theory. -
First Photo of DNA
Rosalind Franklin was one of if not the first woman to be in a science field. She was left out of Crick and Wilkins Nobel prize however she was the first person to be able to get a picture of DNA.