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Gregor Mendel
He discovered how you inhereted traits from your parents -
Friedrich Miescher
He discovered nucleic acid (DNA) -
Frank Griffith
He discovered that DNA is a molecule of inheritance -
Erwin Chargaff
He took samples of different types of DNA from different cells and found that the amount of thymine was almost equal to the amount of adenine, also the amount of guanine was almost equal to the amount of cytosine. -
Oswald Avery
He discovered that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made. -
Maurice Wilkins
He discovered the structure of DNA -
Hershey and Chase
They proved that the DNA, not the protein, of the phage virus* contains the phage genes. -
Rosalind Franklin
Her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA -
Watson and Crick
They were the two co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. -
Frederick Sanger
He made the dideoxy method of sequencing DNA -
Thomas Hunt Morgan
He proved that genes or genetic material is carried on chromosomes.
