Dna 500

Scientists Who Contributed to the Discovery or Understanding of DNA.

  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel

    He noticed certain traits in pea plants followed a specific pattern.
  • Friedrich Miescher

    Friedrich Miescher

    Discovered Nucleic Acid (DNA)
  • Frank Griffith

    Frank Griffith

    Proved that DNA is a molecule of inheritance.
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    Noticed that there was a pattern that occurred in the four bases which are: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery

    Found out that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.
  • Maurice Wilkins.

    Maurice Wilkins.

    Discovered the structure of DNA.
  • Hershey & Chase.

    Hershey & Chase.

    Helped to convince the world that DNA is genetic material.
  • Rosalind Franklin.

    Rosalind Franklin.

    Discovered the DNA double helix.
  • Watson & Crick.

    Watson & Crick.

    Discovered the Structure of DNA.
  • Frederick Sanger

    Frederick Sanger

    Sequencing insulin by amino acids & dideoxy method for sequencing DNA.
  • John Sulston

    John Sulston

    Understood and explained the dividing of cells.
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Discovered the role played by the chromosome in heredity.