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Gregor Mendel
He made the fundamental laws of inheritance and and made the 3 laws of heredity. -
Hermann Muller
Warned of the long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear warfare -
Frederick Griffith
His first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation -
Oswald Avery
Identified the molecule that transformed the R strain into the S strain -
Francis Crick
He was very well known for being one of the two discoverers (the other being James D. Watson) of the structure of the DNA molecule -
Erwin Chargaff
Discovered two rules on the basis of which we were able to figure out that the DNA had a double helical structure. -
Hershey-Chase
Their experiment helped to confirm that DNA is genetic material -
Rosalind Franklin
Best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix -
James Watson
Best known as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA -
Sydney Brenner
Showed that RNA was a copy of the information in DNA. As a messenger, RNA transported the information from the nucleus to the protein-making machinery in the cell
