The History of DNA-Tamsyn

By Kuehnertt

  • Johann Gregor Mendel

    Johann Gregor Mendel
    discovered recessive and dominant traits

  • Friedrich Miescher

    Friedrich Miescher
    took DNA out of cells

  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery
    Clinical study of the tuberculosis bacterium

  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
    found ratio of complementary nucleotide

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    first to discover that DNA is a double helix

  • James Watson & Francis Crick

    James Watson & Francis Crick
    first to publish about the structure of DNA

  • Marshall Nirenberg

    Marshall Nirenberg
    discovered DNA holds the code for protiens

  • Martha Chase & Alfred Day Hershey

    Martha Chase & Alfred Day Hershey
    DNA carried genetic info

  • Alec Jeffreys

    Alec Jeffreys
    discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting

  • J. Craig Venter & Francis Collins

    J. Craig Venter & Francis Collins
    deciphered essentially all the genes in human DNA called the Human Genome Project