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Geneticists and what they did
Chapter 9
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Biology
9th Grade
12/12/2011

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Griffith
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Used S and R viruses to show transformation of bacteria (1)
Tried to find pneumonia vaccine
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Hershey and Chase
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Proved that DNA can take over non-viral bacteria. Used radioactive materials to prove it wasn't proteins
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Chargaff
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Discovered that adenine and thymine levels, and guanine and cytosine levels were always equal in organisms though the two sets level's varied
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Wilkins and Franklin
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developed high-quality diffraction photos of DNA. Showed that it resembled coiled helix and had two to three chains of nucleotides
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Watson and Crick
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Built the first 3D model of DNA. Used knowledge of chemical bonding and had two strands of nucleotides around a central axis. In 1953
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