Genetics

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  • Mendel

    came up with his three Principles (dominance, segregation, indep. assortment)

  • Miescher

    isolated nucleic acid (now called DNA)

  • Bateson and Punnett

    Mendel's work rediscovered and translated into English
    experimentation with sweet pea plants

  • Sutton

    Chrm Theory of Heredity

  • Johannsen

    came up with the term "gene"

  • Morgan

    experimented with fruit flies- found that not all traits sort independently

  • Feugen

    discovered that DNA could be stained inside cell with a red dye

  • Griffith

    experimented with pneumonia in mice

  • Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty

    Gathered evidence that DNA is genetic material

  • Chargaff

    discovered that the amount of guanine and cytosine equal each other and that the amount of adenine and thymine equal each other

  • Franklin and Wilkins

    created images of DNA

  • Hershey and Chase

    supported Avery and Co.'s findings-discovered that DNA took control of bacterial cell and forced it to make new viruses

  • Crick and Watson

    discovered structure of DNA