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Mendel and The Fundemental laws of Inheritence
In 1886 Gregor Mendel discovered the fact that an organsims offspring inherit traits from its parents. What he discovered werethe Fundemental Laws of Inheritence. -
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Major DNA Discoveries
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Oswald Avery
He proved that the transforming princepal actually was DNA. -
Erwin Chargaff
Chargaff discovered the base pairs within DNA. i.e. A=T and C=G. -
Hershey and Chase
Hershey and Chase made the discovery that DNA is a genetic material. -
Linus Pauling
Was the first person to propose that DNA had a helix like structure but the experiment he used to prove it failed due to an mistake on his part. -
James Watson and Francis Crick
They discovered that the structure of DNA was a double helix. -
Rosalind Franklin
Produced the X-rays of BDNA that helped Watson and Crick make thier discovery of the structure of DNA. -
Roy John Britten
Britten was the one who discovered repetative DNA. -
Roger Kornberg
Kornberg discovered the imortance of Histones to Chromatin structure. -
Mario Cappechi
Cappechi discovered homologus recombination.
