The Story of the Double Helix

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  • Gregor Mendel introduces individual inherited 'particles'

    Gregor Mendel introduces individual inherited 'particles'

    These 'particles' were later called genes.

  • Basic structure of DNA was known

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    Linus Pauling

    Shows that polypeptide chains are often held in the shape of an a-helix by hydrogen bonds that could be broken by heating. Suggested that this could relate to changes seen in DNA on heating
  • Period: to

    Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, Maclyn McCarty

    Showed DNA was the material of inheritance.
  • Erwin Chargaff finds that proportions of C-G are the same and T-A are the same and that there are no relationships between other combinations of bases.

    Erwin Chargaff finds that proportions of C-G are the same and T-A are the same and that there are no relationships between other combinations of bases.

  • Wilkins and Franklin work on X-ray diffraction

    Wilkins and Franklin work on X-ray diffraction

  • Watson and Crick released their model of DNA

    Watson and Crick released their model of DNA

  • Rosalind Franklin dies from cancer

    Rosalind Franklin dies from cancer

  • Watson, Crick and Wilkins win the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine.

    Watson, Crick and Wilkins win the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine.