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starts the science of genetics. Studies how pea plants pass down their character traits.
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Discovered that bacteria contains a molecule that can pass down genetic information form one cell to another.
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Did an experiment that found that the transforming principle is DNA.
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Discovers that the amount of adenine and thymine are almost always the same amount as well as guanine and cytosine
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Confirmed that the genetic material of viruses is DNA
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Did an x-ray diffraction on DNA and confirmed that it was in the form of a double-helix.
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Create a model of the DNA double helix.
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They discovered that DNA was wrapped around proteins called Histones.
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It was a project where scientists looked at our ancestors and mapped their genes.