History of Genetics

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    Gregor Mendel

    Mendel's peas:
    1- Features with constant differences.
    2- Protected hybrids or of easy protection.
    3- Offspring without fertility problems.
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    Carl von Naegeli

    Natural sciences society, Brünn
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    John Langdon Down

    Observation of chromosomes in the nuclei, of the fact that their number is constant for a given cell and species and that they are equally distributed during cell division.
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    Perkin, Wallach

    synthetic dyes
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    Walter S. Sutton

    Chromosomes as the physical basis of inheritance
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    Walter Flemming

    Aster mitosis
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    Hugo Vries, Karl E. Correns, Erich von Tschemak

    Rediscovery of Mendel´s work
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    William Bateson

    1907 Genetics
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    Garrod

    Alcaptonuria in endogamic families. Bateson and Saunders propose it as a recessive disorder
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    Theodor Boveri

    (cytogenetics) the chromosomes carry the genetic material
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    Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Mutant
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    Kossel

    A, G, C, T, sugar
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    Levene

    Ribose and D-ribose, nucleotides
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    Sturtevant

    Genetic maps
    Mechanism of mendelian inheritance
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    Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin

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    H.J Muller

    X Rays
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    Beadle and Tatum

    One gene, one enzyme
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    Avery, MacLeod, MaCarthy

    Transforming factor
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    Jaques Monod and François Jacob

    mRNA
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    Werner Arber

    Restriction enzymes
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    Cohen and Boyer

    Recombinant DNA
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    James Watson

    Human Genome
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    Kary Mullis

    Polymerase Chain Reaction