DNA scientists

  • PA Lavene

    PA Lavene

    he concluded that the basic unit ,nucleotide, was composed of a base attached to a sugar and that the phosphate also attached to the sugar
  • Frederick Griffith

    Frederick Griffith

    discovered DNA was the molecule of inheritance. this is know as transformation
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery

    Avery had found the inheritance molecule which was DNA
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    created Chargaff's rule which stated A=T, and G=C which means the amount of adenine was almost equal to the amount of thymine, and that the amount of guanine was almost equal to the amount of cytosine
  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling

    with his partner, Robert Corey, they determined that the structure of a class of proteins is a helix
  • Hershey and Chase

    Hershey and Chase

    they concluded that the genetic material of the bacteriophage was DNA, not protein
  • Rosalind Franlin and Maurice Wilkins

    Rosalind Franlin and Maurice Wilkins

    their images through x rays showed the x-shaped patterns of the chromosomes, and the helix structure.
  • James Watson and Francis Crick

    James Watson and Francis Crick

    Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA which is the double helix after they saw the x ray images from Franklin