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Extracts what comes to be known as DNA from the nucli of white blood cells
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Discovered that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation.
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Showed how genes direct the synthesis of enzymes that control metbolic process.
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Employed bacteriophages, a type of virus that invades bacteria.
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Discovered that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation.
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Discovered that DNA is a double helix.
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Helped confirm that DNA is the genetic material.
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Discovered data about the X-ray
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Discovered that the chemical structure of DNA meets the requirements for a substance that encodes genetic information.
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Crystalizes DNA polymerse
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Discovered that DNA replication is semiconservative
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"Cracked" the genetic code.
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Creates first recombiant DNA molecules.
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Develop recombiant DNA technology.
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Helped develop polymureage chain reaction
