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P.A. Levene
identified the components of DNA and showed that the components were linked together in the order phosphate-sugar-base to form units -
fredrick griffith
showed that Streptococcus pneumoniae could transform from one strain into a different strain -
Oswald Avery
DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made. -
Linus Pauling
discovery of sickle cell anemia as a "molecular disease" opened the way toward examining genetically acquired mutations at a molecular level -
Erwin Chargaff
The first and best known achievement was to show that in natural DNA the number of guanine units equals the number of cytosine units and the number of adenine units equals the number of thymine units -
Rosalind Franklin
Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to discovery of DNA double helix -
Hershey and Chase
Hershey–Chase experiments were a series of experiments conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase that helped to confirm that DNA was the genetic material -
James watson
known as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. -
Francis Crick
noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson -
Maurice Wilkins
He is best known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA
