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Paper Published on the Discovery of the Basic Principles of Genetics
Gregor Mendel, Experiments with Pea Plants, 1856-1863 -
Friedrich Miescher isolated Nuclein - Now called DNA
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Chromosomes are the basis of heredity
Walter Stanborough Sutton, Columbia University -
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Work on the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance begins
Thomas Hunt Morgan, Columbia University, 1904-1921, Work with Fruit Flies -
A.H. Sturtevant publishes the first Genetic Map
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DISCOVERY Bacteria can gain DNA
Frederick Griffith experiments with bacteria and uncovers the process of transformation, by which bacteria can get DNA. -
Thomas Hunt Morgan receives Nobel Prize
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Barbar McClintock devotes herself to genetic studies, discovers Telomeres
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Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment
DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, not proteins -
A. Hershey and M. Chase confirm DNA as genetic material
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Rosalind Franklin X-Rays DNA fibers
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Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA
Using Rosalind Franklin's X-Ray photographs, Watson and Crick figure out the double helix -
Meselson–Stahl experiment
Using E. coli DNA, Meselson and Stahl concluded that DNA replication was semiconservative. -
Watson and Crick receive a Nobel Prize
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A.H. Sturtevant receives National Medal of Science for his achievements in genetics
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Invention of the Southern blot
Sir Edwin Mellor Southern -
Polymerase chain reaction Technique Developed
Kary Mullis discovers an easy way and inexpensive way to clone DNA -
Barbara McClintock receives a Nobel Prize
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Edwin Southern wins a Gairdner Foundation International Award
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Kary Mullis receives Nobel Prize