Brief History of Genetics Flashcards by Nicole Bolo | Brainscape

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Genes are particular factors

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Gregor Mendel

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Discovery of nucleic acids

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Friedrich Mieschner

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Chromosomes are hereditary units

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Walter Sutton

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Genes lie on chromosomes

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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Chromosomes are linear arrays of genes

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Alfred Sturtevant

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Mutations are physical changes in genes

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Hermann Muller

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Recombination occurs via crossing over

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Harriett Creighton & Barbara McClintock

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A gene codes for protein

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George Beadle & Edward Tatum

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DNA carries the genetic material

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Oswald Avery, Collin MacLeod & Maclyn McCarty

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First protein sequenced

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Frederick Sanger

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DNA is a double helix

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James Watson & Francis Crick

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DNA replicates semi-conservatively

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Matthew Meselson & Franklin Stahl

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Genetic code is triplet

“codon”

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Marshal Nirenberg & Heinrich Matthaei

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DNA can be sequenced

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Frederick Sanger, Allan Maxxam & Walter Gilbert

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