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DNA Timeline
My timeline for IB Biology I.
Created by
James
⟶ Updated 21 Nov 2018 ⟶
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Friedrich Miescher - The discovery of DNA
Johann Gregor Mendel - The laws of heredity
Thomas Hunt Morgan - The genetics of fruit flies
NOTE: These events labelled "1 Jan 1920" are representing the pre 1920s as a whole.
1929 Phoebus Levene - Components of DNA discovered
1928 Frederick Griffith - Genetic factor in bacteria transferred
1943 William Astbury - First pictures of DNA taken
1944 Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty - More proof for DNA in genes over proteins
1953 James Dewey Watson & Francis Harry Compton Crick - The double helix
1952 Rosalind Elsie Franklin & Maurice Wilkins - DNA crystals photographed
1953 Linus Pauling - The triple helix
1950 Erwin Chargaff - Base pairs discovered
1952 Martha Chase & Alfred Day Hershey - The blender experiment
1956 George Gamow - Theorized about the genetic code; won a prize from UNESCO for popularizing science
1968 Marshall Nirenberg & Har Gobind Khorana - Did experiments leading to discovery of genetic code; shared a Nobel Prize
1977 Frederick Sanger - DNA sequencing
1978 Werner Arber - Shared Nobel Prize for discovery that would lead to development of recombiant DNA technology
1983 Kary Mullis - Invented polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
1975 Paul Berg - Organizer of the Asilomar conference on recombiant DNA
1993 Francis Collins - The human genome
2000 Celera Organization and U.S. Department of Energy - Human genome project draft announcement
2003 Celera Organization and U.S. Department of Energy - Human genome final completion of sequence
