Dna strand

The History of DNA - Mykenzie Burnett

  • Johanna Gregor Mendel

    Johanna Gregor Mendel
    He discovered recessive and dominant traits
  • Friedrich Miescher

    Friedrich Miescher
    He was the first person to take DNA out of cells
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery
    He created a clinical study for tuberculosis bacterium.
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
    He found the ratio for complementary nucleotides
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    She was the first to discover that DNA was a double helix.
  • James Watson and Francis Crick

    James Watson and Francis Crick
    They were the first to publish about the structure of DNA
  • Marshall Nirenberg

    Marshall Nirenberg
    He discovered that DNA holds the code for proteins.
  • Martha Chase and Alfred Day Hershey

    Martha Chase and Alfred Day Hershey
    They discovered that DNA carried genetic information.
  • Alec Jeffrey

    Alec Jeffrey
    He discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting
  • J. Craig and Francis Collins

    J. Craig and Francis Collins
    They deciphered essentially all the genes in human DNA ( Human Genome Project)