The History of DNA-Tamsyn

By Kuehnertt
  • Johann Gregor Mendel

    Johann Gregor Mendel

    discovered recessive and dominant traits
  • Friedrich Miescher

    Friedrich Miescher

    took DNA out of cells
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery

    Clinical study of the tuberculosis bacterium
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    found ratio of complementary nucleotide
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin

    first to discover that DNA is a double helix
  • James Watson & Francis Crick

    James Watson & Francis Crick

    first to publish about the structure of DNA
  • Marshall Nirenberg

    Marshall Nirenberg

    discovered DNA holds the code for protiens
  • Martha Chase & Alfred Day Hershey

    Martha Chase & Alfred Day Hershey

    DNA carried genetic info
  • Alec Jeffreys

    Alec Jeffreys

    discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting
  • J. Craig Venter & Francis Collins

    J. Craig Venter & Francis Collins

    deciphered essentially all the genes in human DNA called the Human Genome Project