Very breif history Flashcards

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Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty, and Colin Macleod

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1944
demonstrated that DNA was the transforming principle of pneumococcus bacteria

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Erwin Chargaff

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1949
In DNA found that amount of A=T and G=C

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Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

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1952 used randomly labeled viruses infected bacteria cells; observed that infected bacteria cells contained radioactivity originating from DNA of virus
Dna is hereditary material

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Rosalind Franklin

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1953 Produced x ray diffraction pattern of DNA
Suggest double helix pattern

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James Watson and Francis Crick

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1953 deduced the structure of DNA using information from the work of Chargaff, Franklin and Maurice Wilkins

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