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Gregor Mendel
Discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance -
Friedrich Miescher
Identified DNA as a distinct molecule -
Albrecht Kossel
Idenifed nuclein as a nucleic acid and providing its present chemical name. -
Nikolai Koltsov
He proposed that inherited traits would be inherited via a 'giant herietary model' made up of 2 mirror stands that would replicate in a semi-conservative fashion using each stand as a template. -
William Astbury
He made the first attempt to solve the structure of DNA and took the first x-ray photographs of biological macromolecules found with living cells. -
Fedrick Sanger
Researching problems relatred to the determination of structure of protiens which resulted in the determination of the structure of insulin. -
Erwin Chargaff
He figured out that the C and G units were the same and the A and T units were the same, which lead to the discovry of the double helix structure -
Rosalind Franklin
She discovered the DNA molecule is shaped like a twisted ladder. -
James Watson & Francis Crick
Discovered the double helix, tth twisted ladder structure of DNA -
Maurice Wilkins
Provided evidence for double helix structure -
Raymond Gosling
He crystalised genes he was the first to do it -
Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana & Robert Holley
- Dechipered the genetic code
- Found out how DNA was read
- DNA is universal to all life
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Stanley Cohen & Herbert Boyer
Figured out the ability to reconstruct functional DNA in foreign -
Alec Jeffreys
discovered genetic fingerprinting which is used in police identification.