DNA

By 18lalinden

  • Double Helix

    Watson and Crick discovered the shape of DNA and called it the double helix.

  • Seymour Benzer

    Benzer got inside a gene and learned more about how they work on a moleculeular level.

  • Sydney and Crick

    Sydney and Crick discovered that a gene is read by three letters in a tripelet or codon.

  • Kornberg

    Kornberg identified over a hundred enzymes used in metabolic reactions.

  • Roy Britten

    Discovered the repeats in DNA code.

  • RNA Splicing

    Richard Roberts and Phillip Sharp discovered RNA splicing and how it works.

  • Test tube Baby

    The first test tube baby was created.

  • Human Genome

    Human Genome project was proposed and created.

  • John Sulton

    He built a cell-fate map of C. elegans, enabling other scientists to compare and use mutants to find genetic defects.