DNA

By nicolelaska
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery

    him and collegues Maclyn Mccarty and Colin Macleod reported that the genetic material of the cell was DNA
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    Strongly suggested that base pairing existed within certain DNA pairs
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin

    took xray crystallography pictures of BDNA

  • Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

    Confirmed that phage DNA was the genetic material, not protein

  • James Watson and Francis Crick

    came up with the structure for DNA
  • Arthur Kornberg

    Arthur Kornberg

    showed that DNA can be made in a test tube

  • Marshell Warred

    Cracked the genetic code

  • Roy Britten

    showed that eukarotic genomes have many repetitive, noncoding DNA sequence

  • Fredrick Singer

    first person to obtain a protein sequence
  • Leeland Hartwell

    Leeland Hartwell

    pioneer in yeast genetics
    used yeast to identify many genes involved in protein synthesis