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Gregor Mendel
He made the fundemental laws of inheritance. -
Fredrick Griffith
Did the first major experiment that led to DNA, discovered the S strain of DNA and the R strain -
Oswald Avery
Identified the molecule that transformed the R strain into the S strain. -
Erwin Chargraff
Analyzed the amount of adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine in DNA, he said cytosine was equal to guanie and thymine was equal to adenine. -
Rosalind Franklin
X-ray diffraction of DNA -
Hershey-Chase
Published results of experiments that provided definitve evidence that DNA is a transforming factor. -
James Watson
Helped build the double helix model for DNA -
Francis Crick
Helped build the double helix model for DNA -
Seymour Benzer
Came up with Genetic of Phage. -
Marshall Nirenberg
He solved the genetic code.
