Dna rna structure

Contributors to the Discovery of DNA and its Structure

By abbyheil

  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    Darwin was able to present information showing traits were inherited. He did not know how or what was used in the process.

  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel
    Mendel discovered law of segregation and law of dominance.

  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery
    Avery helped discover the genetic material of DNA.

  • Chase and Hershey

    Chase and Hershey
    Chase and Hershey were the first scientists to find bacteriophages.

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    Franklin made crucial contributions to the solution of the structure of DNA, with her X-ray photographs.

  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
    Chargaff discovered the pairing rules of DNA letters, noticing that A matches to T and C matches to G.

  • Maurice Wilkins

    Maurice Wilkins
    Wilkins helped in the discovery of the structure of DNA.

  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling
    Pauling was the first to suggest that DNA was a triple helix.

  • James Watson

    James Watson
    Watson discovered genes have a regular pattern and a double helix.

  • Francis Crick

    Francis Crick
    Crick helped in the discovery of DNA structure and regular gene pattern.