The Milestones Of DNA

  • Fredrich Miescher

    Fredrich Miescher

    Isolated nuclein DNA with associated proteins from cell nuclei.
  • Frederick Griffith

    Frederick Griffith

    He discovered the transforming principle in pneumococous.
  • Beadle And Tatum

    Beadle And Tatum

    Beadle and Tatum proved how genes use direct synthesis of enzymes that control metabolic processes.
  • Oswald Avery, McCarty and MacLeod

    Oswald Avery, McCarty and MacLeod

    Idenified DNA as the transforming principle responsible for specific charecteristics in bacteria.
  • Max Delbruck

    Max Delbruck

    Discoverd how to do genetics with bacterias and their viruses.
  • Edwin Chargaff

    Edwin Chargaff

    He discovered regularity is an proportionary of DNA bases of different species.
  • Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkens

    Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkens

    They discovered the structure of DNA
  • Hershey and Chase

    Hershey and Chase

    Their experiment proved that DNA is genetic material.
  • Watson And Crick

    Watson And Crick

    They discovered the chemical structure of DNA meets the unique requirements for a substance that encodes genetic info.
  • Arthur Kornberg

    Arthur Kornberg

    He isolated the first DNA polymercing enzyme,
  • Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl

    Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl

    They performed an experiment in 1958 which supported their hypothesis that DNA replication was semiconservative.
  • Marshall Nirenburg

    Marshall Nirenburg

    He cracked the DNA "code".
  • Paul Berg

    Paul Berg

    He assembled the first DNA from different organisms.
  • Kary Mullis

    Kary Mullis

    Invented the system of PCR
  • Stanley Cohen and Herb Boyer

    Stanley Cohen and Herb Boyer

    They invented DNA cloningnthat allowed genes to be transplanted between different biological species.