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Important Events in the History of DNA By: Garrett Dort 3rd Period Biology Honors

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  • Mendel and The Fundemental laws of Inheritence

    Mendel and The Fundemental laws of Inheritence

    In 1886 Gregor Mendel discovered the fact that an organsims offspring inherit traits from its parents. What he discovered werethe Fundemental Laws of Inheritence.
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    Major DNA Discoveries

  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery

    He proved that the transforming princepal actually was DNA.
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    Chargaff discovered the base pairs within DNA. i.e. A=T and C=G.
  • Hershey and Chase

    Hershey and Chase

    Hershey and Chase made the discovery that DNA is a genetic material.
  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling

    Was the first person to propose that DNA had a helix like structure but the experiment he used to prove it failed due to an mistake on his part.
  • James Watson and Francis Crick

    James Watson and Francis Crick

    They discovered that the structure of DNA was a double helix.
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin

    Produced the X-rays of BDNA that helped Watson and Crick make thier discovery of the structure of DNA.
  • Roy John Britten

    Roy John Britten

    Britten was the one who discovered repetative DNA.
  • Roger Kornberg

    Roger Kornberg

    Kornberg discovered the imortance of Histones to Chromatin structure.
  • Mario Cappechi

    Mario Cappechi

    Cappechi discovered homologus recombination.