Great Discoveries In DNA

By JakeJ

  • Avery

    Avery
    He found that bacteria was an essential part in the process of DNA remaking its self.

  • Chargaff

    Chargaff
    Chargaff found that the amounts of A,T,G and C are not the same in all organisms.

  • Franklin

    Franklin
    She used X-ray diffractions to discover the three-dimensional pattern of DNA

  • Chase and Hershey

    Chase and Hershey
    Chase and Hershey discovered that DNA is the genetic material needed to make new living things.

  • Watson and Crick

    Watson and Crick
    Watson and Crick made the first accurate model of DNA called a double helix.

  • Kornberg

    Kornberg
    Kornberg supports Watson and Crick and also say that if a DNA strand is put with a blank DNA polymerase, it will make a new strand.

  • Brenner

    Brenner discovers that rRNA isnt the template to make protiens but a third type of it sends the message to the ribosomes to make it.

  • Roberts and Sharp

    Roberts and Sharp Discover RNA splicing while working on interrupted genes.

  • Sanger

    Sanger developes chain termination DNA sequencing method.

  • Fodar

    Fodar makes the gene chip which now means scientists can observe different gene strands and find out what they are all on a computer