Genetics

Question 1

What did Mendel theorise in 1900 about genes?

Answer 1

Genes come in pairs, one inherited from each parent known as the fundamental law of inheritance

Question 2

What did Archibald Garrod theorise in 1902

Answer 2

Hereditary diseases are caused by missing information in the body’s chemical pathways

Question 3

What did US scientists prove in 1941

Answer 3

Garrrods chemical pathways theory

Question 4

Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins do what in 1951?

Answer 4

Create DNA Images using x rays

Question 5

What do Watson and crick do in 1953 after seeing Franklin and Wilkins x rays?

Answer 5

Publish a paper on the shape of DNA and how looking at its structure could help identify what causes hereditary diseases

Question 6

What did Watson Lead in 1990?

Answer 6

The human genome project, decode and map the human genome

Question 7

What did Watson Lead in 1990?

Answer 7

The human genome project, decode and map the human genome

Question 8

When was the first draft of the human genome project?

Answer 8

2000

Question 9

What did mapping the human genome make possible

Answer 9

Use blueprint DNA to look for mistakes/mismatches of people suffering hereditary diseases