biology discoveries

  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel
    An Austrian Monk who studied genetics way before his time.He studied pee plants. He crossed polinated and also let the plants self-polinate.
  • !869-Fredrich Miescher

    !869-Fredrich Miescher
    A young swiss physican Fredrich Miesher moved to Tabingen to work in the laboratory og biochemist Hoppe-Seyier. Choosing lecucoaytes, he first investigated the proteins in thes cells. During these experiments he noticed a sustance with unexpected properties that did not match those protiens Miesher had obtained in the first purification of DNA.
  • Thomas Morgan Fruit Fly genetics

    Thomas Morgan Fruit Fly genetics
    Tomas Morgan began to bread the common fruit-fly. Morgan noticed one fruit fly woth a distinctive characteristics; white eyes instead of read. He isolated this specimen and mated it woth an ordinary red reyed fly using this Morgan realized Mendelain's rules for inheritence of dominant and recessive traits that would apply.
  • Fredrich Griffith discovers transformations of bacteria

    Fredrich Griffith discovers transformations of bacteria
    Fredrich Griffin is an Engish army doctor who conducted experiments, which consisted of testing the efects of killed bacteria in live cells. This was intended to help develop a vacine against a future outbreak of the Spanish flu. The epidemic killed millions of people after World War 1.
  • Oswald Avery and the transforming factor

    Oswald Avery and the transforming factor
    He is a canadian born American that showed that DNA is repsonsible for the transformation of heridity and the characteristics that cross over.
  • Erwin Chargaff and Chargaff's laws

    Erwin Chargaff and Chargaff's laws
    He was a biochemist. Best known for Chargaff's Rules. Which lead up to the discovery of DNA's double Helix
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    She was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA.
  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling
    He was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1200 papers and books.
  • James Watsom And Francis crick

    James Watsom And Francis crick
    best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick.