DNA timeline

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  • G. Mendel

    Discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance.

  • F. Miescher

    Discovered DNA associated proteins, from cell nuclei.

  • W. Sutton

    Discovered that chromosomes are the basis of heredity.

  • A.H. Sturtevant

    Discovered first genetic map of a chromosome.

  • F. Griffith

    Discovered showing how bacteria can distinctly change their function and form through transformation.

  • T.H. Morgan

    Nobel Prize in Physiology. Discovered white eyed mutation fruit fly.

  • Meselson and Stahl Barbara McClintock

    Discovered transposition and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off.

  • O. Avery et al

    Discovered that isolated DNA as the material that genes and chromosomes are made of.

  • E. Chargaff

    Discovered double helix structure of DNA.

  • A. Hershey and Martha Chase

    Discovered and proved that phage DNA, and not protein, was the genetic material.

  • Watson and Crick

    Discovered the twisted ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid DNA.

  • E. Southern

    The first to discover the nucleotide sequence of a eukaryotic chromosomal DNA fraction.

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Discovered X-ray diffraction of DNA.

  • Kary Mullis

    Invention of the polymerase chain reaction PCR.