DNA

  • Frederick Griffith

    Frederick Griffith

    Griffith discovered transformation, which is a change in genotype caused when a cell takes up foreign genetic material.
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery

    Avery identified DNA as the transforming principle.
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    Noted the nucleotide composition of DNA waries on the species.
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin

    Suggested a helical structure that contains 2, 3, or 4 nucleic acid chains.
  • Alfred Hershey and Marsha Chase

    Alfred Hershey and Marsha Chase

    Labeled the phage DNA with Phosphorus-32.
  • James Watson and Francis Crick

    James Watson and Francis Crick

    Proposing the double helix.