Introduction

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defined molecular biology as the study of dna

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james watson

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head of the natural science division of the rockfeller foundation

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warren weaver

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first to use the term molecular biology

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warren weaver

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deals with molecular techniques for handling and analysis of nucleic acids

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diagnostic molecular biology

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discovered dna and extracted nuclein

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john friedrich miescher

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first to demonstrate bacterial transformation

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frederick griffith

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type s

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virulent

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type r

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non virulent

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implicated that DNA is responsible for bacterial transformation

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avery, macleod, mccarty

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enzyme that digest proteins

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proteases

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enzymes that breaks apart RNA

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ribonucleases

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enzymes that act on DNA

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DNases

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took the photo 51

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rosalind franklin & raymond gosling

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studies of DNA’s structure through X-ray diffraction

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(X-ray crystallography)

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helped confirmed that DNA is the genetic material by performing experiments

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alfred hershey and martha chase

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performed chromatographic methods about adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine

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erwin chargaff

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adenine is equal to

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thymine

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guanine is equal to

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cytosine

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published in nature, the first correct model of the DNA molecule

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james watson and francis crick

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utilized franklin’s “photo 51”

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james watson and francis crick

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they performed the first known successful DNA recombinant experiment

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herbert boyer and stanley norman cohen

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seperately developed techniques for rapid DNA sequencing

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walter gilbert and frederick sanger

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invented the pcr technique

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kary mullis

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presented the zinc finger nucleases

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nikola panayot pavletich and carl pabo

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first to generate the mammalian clone, dolly the sheep

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sir ian wilmut

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a roundworm who became the first multicellular organism to have its entire genome decoded

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caenorhabditis elegans

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first crop to have its entire genum decoded

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rice

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this project completely mapped and identified all of the genes of the human genome

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human genome project

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enzymes that can be engineered to cut specific dna sequences

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talens

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meaning of talens

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transcription activator-like effector nucleases

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utilized for genome editing purposes

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crispr-cas9

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meaning of crispr

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clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

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refers to the analysis of nucleic acids and proteins for diagnosis

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molecular pathology

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PREDICT disease progression

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prognosis

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DETECT normal and disease states

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diagnosis

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identifying the gene expression pattern

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redefinition of diseases

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molecular biology enabled clinicians to identify genes that have the potential of causing cancer

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detection of cancer

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molecular techniques have enabled the detection of pathogens

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detection of infectious diseases

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genetic screeing for the presence of proteins involved in drug metabolism

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treatment of diseases

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studies how drug responses occur concerning an individual’s genome

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pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine

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diagnostic molecular techniques have been of great assistance for predicting the manifestation of genetic diseases

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diagnostic of genetic diseases