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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel publishes "Experiments in planr hybridization" where he experimented on the hereditary traits in peas. He learned that certain traits are passed from parent to offspring. These traits were later known as genes, -
Friedrich Miescher
Friedrich Miescher states that a substance in a cell's nuclei is nuclein. This "nuclein" was later found out to be DNA. -
Thomas Morgan
Thomas Morgan states that genes are located along chromosomes. -
Francis Crick
Francis Crick was born in Weston Favell, United Kingdom. -
James Watson
James Watson was born in Chicago, Illinois. -
Phoebus Levene
Phoebus Levene discovered that deoxyribose sugar is in nucleic acids. He stated that DNA is made up of nucleotides. -
William Astbury
William Astbury takes X-ray diffraction pictures of DNA. -
Erwin Chargraff
Erwin Chargaff discovered base pairs. Guanine connects to cytosine and adenine conects to thymine. -
Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin
Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin photograph DNA crystals by using an X-ray. -
James Watson and Francis Crick
James Watson and Francis Crick discover the double helix. -
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Human Genome Project
The human genome project was created in 2000 and was completed in 2003. The goal was to determine the sequence of base pairs and identifying and mapping the genes of the human genome, -
Francis Crick
Francis Crick died in San Diego, CA.
