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  • Phoebus Levene

    Phoebus Levene
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    found that DNA contained adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, deoxyribose, and a phosphate group

  • Fredrick Griffith

    Fredrick Griffith
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    "transforming principle"; first evidence linking DNA to heredity in cells

  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
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    adenine almost equal to thymine, guanine almost equal to cytosine; A=T and G=C; Chargaff's Rule

  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery
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    genetic information is contained in the DNA of cells

  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling
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    DNA is a triple helix

  • Maurice Wilkins

    Maurice Wilkins
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    DNA had a helical structure

  • Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

    Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
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    only DNA of a virus needs to enter a bacterium to infect it; proved genes are made of DNA

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
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    discovered the existence of the A and B forms of DNA, helical structure of DNA has two strands, sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA lies on the outside of the molecule

  • James Watson and Frances Crick

    James Watson and Frances Crick
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    discovered the structure of DNA