History of DNA Timeline

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  • Miescher

    Miescher
    first researcher to identify and isolate nucleic acid

  • Griffith

    Griffith
    the first experiment suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation

  • Avery

    Avery
    DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation

  • Chargaff

    Chargaff
    Chargaff was able to prove with his experiment that there was a one-to-one ratio between adenine and thymine and a one-to-one ratio between guanine and cytosine.

  • Franklin & Wilkins

    Franklin & Wilkins
    James Watson and Francis Crick solved the structure of DNA. Other scientists, like Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, also contributed to this discovery.

  • Hershey & Chase

    Hershey & Chase
    The Hershey–Chase experiments were a series of experiments conducted in 1952[1] by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase that helped to confirm that DNA is genetic material

  • Watson & Crick

    Watson & Crick
    James Watson and Francis Crick solved the structure of DNA.