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Nucleic Acids were discovered
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what DNA is made of and defined the unit
DNA contains the instructions needed for an organism to develop, survive and reproduce -
Griffith experiments
The man who did the first transformation -
Explanation of the transformation
Oswald T. Avery, Colin M. MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty explained the mechanism of that transformation and they discovered that the “transforming principle” was DNA. -
DNA first model
Watson and Crick came out with the first model and they described DNA as a double helix with sugars and phosphates at the center and the nucleobases facing. -
One function of DNA
Erwin Chargaff discovered counting nucleobases that, Adenine and Thymine there are always in balance and Cytosine and Guanine in balance too. -
Bacteriophages
Hershey and Chase discovered that bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria