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Contributors that Led to Discovery of DNA >>
Gregor Mendel (1823 - 1884) -
Conducted the pea plant experiment
Discovered heredity traits in his gardening experiments
Discovered dominant and recessive genes, hybrid and pure bred using cross breeding techniques.
Published his ideas, called “Experiments of Plant Hybridization”
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) -
Conducted famous experiments on Galapagos Islands
Proposed ideas for Natural Selection and Evolution
Published two of his ideas: On The Origin of Life By Means Of Natural Selection, and Preservation Of Favored Races In The Struggle For Life
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866 - 1945) -
Expanded on Mendelian Heredity
Experiments with fruit flies, finding mutations from their genes
Discovered sex-linked chromosomes, sex-linked traits, and X and Y chromosomes
Constructed human chromosome map
Francis Crick (1916 - ????) / James Watson (1928 - ????) -
Used X-Ray crystallography to observe DNA
Discovered structure of DNA
Published scientific paper in British science journal called Nature, in 1953
Crick proposes possibility of base sequence giving instructions to make proteins
Watson is appointed head of the Human Genome Project
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