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Scientists and Their Contributions Towards DNA

  • Gregor Mendel

    Discovered the trend between parent and daughter cells.
  • Fredrich Miescher

    Know for discovering nucleic acid (DNA)
  • Fredrick Griffith

    Fredrick Griffith
    Pointed out that DNA is a molecule of inheritance.
  • Erwin Chargaffin

    Chargaff's Rule
  • Avery

    discovering that DNA is the material which genes and chromosomes are made.
  • Maurice Hugh Fredrick Wilkins

    Made the first accurate model of DNA
  • Hershey and Chase.

    Conducted an experiment that helped to convince the world that DNA was genetic material.
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Best known for her wonk on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA
  • James D. Watson & Crick

    James D. Watson & Crick
    DNA-helix, the molecule that carries genetic information from one generation to the other.
  • Fredrick Sanger

    He is known for the sequence of insulin by amino acids.
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Made discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in herdity.
  • John Sulston

    The Human Genome Project, was an attempt to sequence all human DNA-is essentially complete.