History of DNA

Question 1

Gregor Mendel

Answer 1

1865
Basic principles of genetics through breeding experiments with pea plants

Question 2

Friedrich Miescher

Answer 2

1869
Swiss physiological chemist identified “nuclein” in the nuclei of human human white blood cells (DNA)

Question 3

Sir Archibald Edward Garrod

Answer 3

1902
Link between genes and “inborn errors of metabolism” (Mendel’s theories with human metabolism)

Question 4

Robert Feulgen

Answer 4

1914
German physiologist/chemist
Discovered that fuchsin dye stained DNA (Feulgen stain)

Question 5

Frederick Griffith

Answer 5

1928