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Gregor Mendel
Mendel discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. -
Friedrich Miescher
Miescher isolated the first crude preparation of DNA, he just didn’t know it. He named it nuclein. -
Griffith
A British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia. -
Avery
showed that Fred Griffith’s “transforming principle" was DNA -
Chargaff
He biochemist who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry a school. -
Rosalind Franklin
Franklin produced the X-ray crystallography pictures of BDNA which Watson and Crick used to determine the structure of double stranded DNA -
Hersey + Chase
Chase did the Hershey-Chase blender experiment that proved phage DNA, and not protein, was the genetic material -
Watson + Crick
They proposed the Central Dogma and Adaptor Hypothesis. they stole the model from rosalind franklin. -
Collins + Venter
They began the race to sequence the human genome when he unexpectedly announced to a room full of genome researchers that they could just quit now because his company would finish the job
