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History of the Genetic Code
The people who helped discover the genetic code and dna etc etc
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Biology
9th Grade
03/22/2009

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Gregor Mendel
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1866. Considered the "Father of Genetics". used peas.
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Frierich Miesher
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1869. Used fish sperm to discover nuclear fluid aka nuclein.
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T.H. Morgan
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1902. Uses Drosophilia melanogaster, fruit flies, to discover sex-linked traits.
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1928. FREDERICK GRIFFITH uses two strains of the bacterium pneumococcos and mice.

First strain was rough and non-lethal while the second strain was smooth and lethal.
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Avery
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1944. IDed Girffith's experiment to be DNA.
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Hershey and Chase
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1952. Used the T-4 bacteriophage to identify that you inherit DNA not protein. Therefore, DNA is the genetic code, not protein.
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P.A. Levine
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1920s. Chemical analysis of DNA states that DNA is made of nucleotides, which are made of one 5-carbon sugar [deoxyribose], one nitrogenous base [A/T-C/G], and one phosphate group [PO4]
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Rosalin Frankln
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Uses X-Ray diffraction to dsicover part of DNA's structure.
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Watson and Crick
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1953. Use information gathered and piece together the structure of DNA. DNA is a double-helix.
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Chargaff
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Discovers the pairing rule of nitrogenous bases. There are two purines [Adenine and Guanine] and two pyrimidines [Thymine and Cytosine].

Adenine pairs with Thymine.
Guanine pairs with Cytosine.
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