-
Watson and Crick discovered the shape of DNA and called it the double helix.
-
Benzer got inside a gene and learned more about how they work on a moleculeular level.
-
Sydney and Crick discovered that a gene is read by three letters in a tripelet or codon.
-
Kornberg identified over a hundred enzymes used in metabolic reactions.
-
Discovered the repeats in DNA code.
-
Richard Roberts and Phillip Sharp discovered RNA splicing and how it works.
-
The first test tube baby was created.
-
Human Genome project was proposed and created.
-
He built a cell-fate map of C. elegans, enabling other scientists to compare and use mutants to find genetic defects.