DNA's History

By Kcooper
  • Gregor Mendel

    Mendel was the scientist that figured out how you get your genetic information from your parents.
  • Friedrich Miescher

    Friedrich Miescher

    Miescher discovered nucleic acid which is connected to DNA.
  • Frank Griffith

    Frank Griffith

    Frank Griffith was the scientist that disocvered that DNA is was a molecule that you inhereted from your parents.
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    Chargaff was the scientist that took samples from different types of DNA and found out that the thymine was almost euqual to the adienine. Also the amount of guanine was almost the same amount of cytosine. This became known as Chargaff's Rule.
  • Oswald Avery

    This scientist figured out that DNA is the material in which the genses or (gentetic information) and chromosomes are made.
  • Maurice Wilkins

    Maurice Wilkins

    This scientist was very important because he figured out the structure fit DNA.
  • Hershey and Chase

    Hershey and Chase

    They proved that the DNA, contains the phage genes.
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin

    As a scientist she worked on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA.
  • Fredrick Sanger

    Fredrick Sanger

    This scientist proved that genes or genetics are carried out by chromosomes.
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Thomas Hunt Morgan

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    The created the lastest model of DNA. They discovered the double helix with little rungs connecting the two strands.