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Friedrich Miescher
Friedrich Miescher was trying to study the composition of lymphoid cells but instead he isolated a new molecule called nuclein from a cell nucleus -
Frederick Griffith
He made the first accepted demonstrations of bacteria transformation, where bacteria changes its form and function. -
Barbara McClintock
She challenged existing ideas of what genes were could do when she found out that some genes could be mobile -
Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty & Colin McCleod
they showed that DNA can transform the properties of cells -
Linus Pauling
he became known as the founder of molecular biology because of his discovery about the spiral structure of proteins -
Erwin Chargaff
They worked on the structure on DNA and they discovered more about it by using X-rays -
Rosalind Franklin & Maurice Wilkins
They worked on the structure on DNA and they discovered more about it by using X-rays -
James Watson & Frances Crick
They discovered the double-helix structure in DNA -
Frederick Sanger
His discovery was the structure of the insulin molecule -
Matthew Meselson & Franklin Stahl
They discovered DNA replication which helped the discovery on the double delix -
Paul Berg
He made the discovery by inserting DNA from bacteria into a viruses DNA. -
Kary Mullis
She invented the process called PCR in which a small amount of DNA can be copied into large amounts. -
J. Craig Venter
He helped speed up the human genome project -
Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase
they proved that protein was not genetic material and that DNA was genetic material.