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Oswald Avery
he and his coworkers discovered that DNA carries a cell’s genetic material and can be altered through transformation. -
Evelyn Witkin
discovered the DNA repair mechanisms. -
Erwin Chargaff
He experimentally determined certain crucial facts that led directly to the correct elucidation of its molecular structure. -
Rosalind Franklin
Her photographs clearly demonstrated that DNA was a double helix and finding that flatly contradicted the widespread theory that the structure had three chains. -
James Watson
Researcher credited with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA. -
Francis Crick
Genetic code and protein synthesis was also a discovery with being the other co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA. -
Hershey-Chase
He confirmed that DNA is genetic material. -
Sydney Brenner
He discovered messenger RNA. -
Johann Gregor Mendel
Discovered the laws of heredity. -
Frederick Sanger
discovered DNA sequencing.
