who discovered DNA?

By wongc03

  • Fredrick Griffith

    Fredrick Griffith
    Griffith studied two stains of bacteria that caused pneumonia.

  • P.A. Levene

    P.A. Levene
    P.A. Levene determined the basic structure of nucleotides that makes up the DNA

  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery
    Oswald Avery identified molecules that transfered the R strain of bacteria into S strain.

  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
    Erwin Chargaff published his work in 1950. His data was names the Chargaff rule: C=G and T=A.

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    Rosalind Franklin took and studied the famous photo called Photo 51 that said DNA was a double helix or a twisted ladder shape formed by two necleotides.

  • maurice wilkins

    maurice wilkins
    He discovered the double structure of DNA.

  • hershey and chase

    hershey and chase
    they published results with evidence that DNA is the transforming factor. Their experiment involved a virus that attacks bacteria.

  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling
    He showed the triple-stranded helix in DNA to the science world.

  • Watson and Crick

    Watson and Crick
    Crick and Watson published a one paged letter in the journal Nature that suggested the structure of DNA and the method of relicating of the molecule deduced from the structure.