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Gregor Mendel
laws of heredity -
Friedrich Miescher
discovered dna -
Oswald Avery
showed transforming principle was dna. -
Erwin Chargaff
found A&T and C&G are close in amount -
Rosalind Franklin
made the first x ray crystallography pictures of BDNA -
Hershey & Chase
proved phage dna not protein was the genetic material -
James Watkins
came up with double helix structure. -
Francis Crick
came up with double helix structure. proposed central dogma and adaptor hypothesis -
Sydney Brenner
discovered messenger dna -
Kary Mullis
invented polymerase chain reaction
